Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

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

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

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?

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.

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.