I'd rather be respected than loved.

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.

I'd rather be respected than loved.

A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.