“There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.”

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Jackson [Rathbone] is the most artsy, creative and, I think, the most talented.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.