Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.

I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.