I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.