If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.

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