7 Quotes by Leslie Cohen

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    I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

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    And those thumbnails aren't good for my work, ... That's about impact. Jeff has the variety for the Internet market and that's just not my thing. I have something I want to say and a way to say it. That's good in galleries, not online.

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    At a gallery, ... the artist is the product. The gallery wants plenty of pieces. And it wants similar pieces. The gallery wants consistency in its product, the artist.

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    Still, a lot of people don't take eBay seriously ... We have an artist friend who was at a Los Angeles seminar on marketing art and he was told, 'If you want to be taken seriously, get off eBay.' He then told them that he'd made $150,000 in art on eBay last year. He was immediately told, 'Keep doing what you're doing.'

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    I wanted to work big, ... To work on eBay, always in a shippable size, just wasn't where I wanted to stay.

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    I'm based in galleries in part because if you call what I do postmodernism, nobody on eBay is searching for that, ... eBay does well for traditional work and people who collect it.

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