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.
Look at the free publicity I'm getting for the museum and the collection. Do you know how many millions that's worth?
Once I had a de Kooning, two Gorkys and a Hofmann. But I sold them because I found it was tough enough to pick good paintings out of the past. I did not want to tax myself with the myriad painters of the present.
These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.
To me, such functions are like supermarket openings.
Well, darling, you can have your tearoom now.
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 in the film Portrait of Jennie (1948).
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