Art
  • The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

  • Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

  • The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.

  • Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.

  • Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.