"Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money."

"Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts."

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

"When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance."

"The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing."

"The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined."

"Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

"The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important."