"These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus."

"In the depths of adversity, a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'"

"The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back."

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

"Courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

"It is a humble truth that rise early, act with intent, and let your accomplishments speak with silent authority."