I primarily buy art to show it off.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I don't feel especially conflicted enjoying a Mantegna one day, a Carl Andre the next day and a brash student work the next.

Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a rotting cow's head covered by maggots and swarms of buzzing flies may be pretty unsellable. Until the artist becomes a star. Then he can sell anything he touches .