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

The truly radical work of art is the one that offers you something to hold on to in the midst of the flux of possibility.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

But the Japanese paper was what I loved, and now, so many years later, when I see some exquisitely laid piece of calligraphy by a student of Ogata Korin in a museum, I think first not of the spiritualized handwork of Momoyama Japan, but of those long evenings in the family garage with Dad, smoothing and stretching the refined wing coverings of those planes.