"It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art."

"It is a timeless truth that an hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities."

"A life well-lived is a testament that the beauty of life is found in its imperfections."

"Wisdom principle 7 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 17."

"The simplest truths often reveal that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"Wisdom principle 53 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 86."

"Wisdom principle 57 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 36."