D. W. Winnicott

I believe that all creative people have more than one passion, more than one creative talent.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

There is nothing new… everything has roots in the past.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

Truth exists in art.

An artist can only be evaluated after he’s dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

We’ll buy some drugs and watch a band and jump in a river holding hands.

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

There is no art without intention.

I don’t want to put too many boxes on it because the work speaks louder than words.

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person.

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.