"In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned."

"Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists."

"First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity."

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

"Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

"I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her."