Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more art. I tell them to get up early and stay up late. I tell them not to quit. I tell them if somebody else is already making their work. My job is to be current with the discourse and not be an asshole. That's all I wanted in a professor.

I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.