Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.

I never read, I just look at pictures.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.

People in uniform always look so great.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom.