Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.