Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

I don't think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices. You can't have anything going up 10 percent to 20 percent to 30 percent indefinitely.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.’