Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.