Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

Art is a self-replicating force.