What's the line a gallery used on you that you still think about?
Not the worst thing, and not the flattery either. The one that got under your skin because it was maybe true.
I'll go first. A dealer in Amsterdam, after looking at a whole portfolio of prints, said: "These are beautiful objects. But you are asking me to sell a question." I was offended for about a week and then I realised he had described my entire practice, accurately, in one sentence, and I had no answer prepared. I still don't fully have one. It changed how I write about the work, though. Now I try to make the question sellable, or at least legible, before I walk in.
So what is it for you. The remark that is still in your head, from either direction, and whether you decided it was wisdom or nonsense.
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Mine was gentler than that and still stuck. A gallerist in Copenhagen looked at a stack of pieces and said, "the empty space is doing all the work, and I can't sell all the work to the same person." Fair, and I had no comeback. I've since decided it's fine to sell the object and leave the question in it, but he was right that a room of mostly air is hard to price.