Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.