"My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it."

"Every sunset is a reminder that the canvas of tomorrow is painted with the actions of today."

"Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art."

"It is a steadfast truth that a visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

"The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now."

"On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger."