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We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

- Jorge M. Perez
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I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.

We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.

If they opened things up and I could build a luxury condominium in Vedado, I would sell them in two hours here in Miami. Cubans in Miami would be the first to buy. In Miami, 80 percent of the people we sell to are foreigners. Havana is a city very similar to Miami... There's good music, good theater, good ballet.

I've really been extremely lucky. Some people work just as hard, are just as intelligent, and they don't get their breaks. I've just gotten the breaks. Maybe it's good karma.

The embargo doesn't affect the United States, not even minimally; all of Cuba's economy is smaller than that of Miami-Dade County, and the ones who suffer the most are Cubans. If you talk to them in the street, they're the ones most interested in the opening of a free market in their country.

I really wanted to be Ambassador to Argentina.

My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.

I have two young sons that are very interested and work in real estate. I made it a policy they need to work five years in progressively responsible jobs outside of the company, preferably in New York, and then get a masters degree, so I am making it hard for them to join.

You have to live life to the fullest. I don't want to slow down. I want the giving to be stepped up. So the older I get, the less I will be involved in the business side, the more in the philanthropic side.

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We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.