Quotes by Pierre Berge

Pierre Berge

A collection is like a dinner party. It is made up of the people you invite, but also the people you don’t.

Dinner Party

Party

People

At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They’re both books I have reread regularly since.

Age

Book

War

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power.

Geographically speaking, I was born on a French island – the île d’Oléron. Otherwise, I come from a milieu where culture was of the utmost importance. I learned music even before I learned to read. I always read books beyond my years.

Book

Culture

Importance

I am a man who has spent more than half a century ostensibly and visibly accompanying Yves Saint Laurent throughout his life – but not only that. In the past and still today, I have been behind a lot of creators and artists, supporting them and helping them. That’s probably how I see my mission.

Artist

Men

Past

I am faithful up to the point of death. It’s the only thing I respect. I never abandon anyone. I’m not talking about sexual relations. I’m faithful in my friendship, my admiration.

Admiration

Faithful

Relation

I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection. We even shared a common reading of the history of art. It would never have crossed Yves’s mind to say to me, “Ah, I saw a Pablo Picasso . . .” He knew perfectly well what was interesting with Picasso, as did I.

Art

Interesting

Reading

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you’re going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh.

I hate nostalgia. Today is always better than yesterday.

Hate

Nostalgia

Today

I hate sentiment when it’s inappropriate. I saw someone who went and saw an exhibition and came out in tears. If an exhibition drives you to tears you need to see a psychiatrist immediately. That’s what I think.

Hate

Tears

Thinking

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Admiration

Age

Art

Artist

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Brain

Couple

Culture

Dinner Party

Dog

Done

Easter

Environment

Faithful

Fashion

Feelings

Hate

Home

House

Importance

Important

Intellectual

Interesting

Journalist

Love Is

Mean

Memories

Men

Morning

Nostalgia

Party

Past

People

Quality

Reading

Real

Relation

Saint

Shameful

Song

Style

Taken

Tears

Thinking

Today

Trying

War

Warhol

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Quotes by Pierre Berge

Pierre Berge

A collection is like a dinner party. It is made up of the people you invite, but also the people you don’t.

At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They’re both books I have reread regularly since.

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power.

Geographically speaking, I was born on a French island – the île d’Oléron. Otherwise, I come from a milieu where culture was of the utmost importance. I learned music even before I learned to read. I always read books beyond my years.

I am a man who has spent more than half a century ostensibly and visibly accompanying Yves Saint Laurent throughout his life – but not only that. In the past and still today, I have been behind a lot of creators and artists, supporting them and helping them. That’s probably how I see my mission.

I am faithful up to the point of death. It’s the only thing I respect. I never abandon anyone. I’m not talking about sexual relations. I’m faithful in my friendship, my admiration.

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you’re going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh.

I hate nostalgia. Today is always better than yesterday.

I hate sentiment when it’s inappropriate. I saw someone who went and saw an exhibition and came out in tears. If an exhibition drives you to tears you need to see a psychiatrist immediately. That’s what I think.

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