It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

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.

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.