"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."

"The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing."

"The foundation of joy is the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."

"To dream is to realize that gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"It's not easy to define poetry."

"Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking."

"Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny."

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."