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All right, I will read what's in my pocket.
Hell, yes, it was smuggled. I spent between $15 million and $16 million in the last two years on Asian art, and most of it was smuggled.
I liked money more than going to school.
I owned only 10 percent of a company, but I always acted like I owned 100 percent - and people assumed it was true.
If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.... (more Norton Simon quotes)
Established the Norton Simon Art Museum in Pasadena, California.
Stepfather of Robert Walker Jr. and Michael Walker.
Simon met actress Jennifer Jones at a party hosted by fellow industrialist/art collector Walter Annenberg.
Years before he'd met future wife Jennifer Jones, he had attempted to buy the portrait of her used... (more Norton Simon trivia)
| The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum by Vivian Endicott Barnett | |
| The Collectible Moment: Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum by Gloria Williams Sander | |
| Picasso Graphic Magician: Prints from the Norton Simon Museun by Betsy G. Fryberger |
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