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All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.

It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

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

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

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.