"When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event."

"When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going."

"A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers."

"After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu."

"Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft."

"For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool."

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."

"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."