"I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good."

"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."

"Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings."

"Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power."

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the true master is an eternal student."