"The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to."

"John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion."

"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.'"

"When ambition meets humility, we find that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."

"I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything."

"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

"We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience."