“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.”

“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.”

“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”

“I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.”

“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”

“I paint with shapes.”

“There is nothing new in art except talent.”

“I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.”