Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.