What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture. - Robert Hughes

We all come into the world with baggage which, in the end, we have no hope of reclaiming, The main item in mine was my father.

One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

With hindsight, one can perhaps see that unachievable projects were the right monuments to an ideal. Because they were not built, they could not be destroyed. (p. 92)