The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.

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

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

I hate art auctions.

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.

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.