Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

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.

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.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.