The only way to survive is to intently focus on how the art world operates. Once you understand how things work, you can find a solution to the problems you are facing.

I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years.

A venture not accomplished is loss; working together towards success is VICTORY!

I listen and give input only if somebody asks.

Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.

I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.

We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.

There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!

And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.

If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the more authentic.

Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.