Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
Far from creating a new formalism what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
I have a desire to create more film more beauty more art more love but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.
I believe every chess player senses beauty when he succeeds in creating situations which contradict the expectations and the rules and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits which are something that - you know I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.
When money and hype recede from the art world one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.
Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that since almost no one will be selling art artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.
Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity gizmos eating hanging out things that make noise - all are now the norm often edging out much else.
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.