The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

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.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

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.

We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.