Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.

People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.