"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."

"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."

"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

"Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists."

"It is a humble truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless."

"Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall."