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.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone isolated on e-mail in chat rooms which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.