I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal ' the 'New York Times ' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye she's wearing your best sweater.

Yes'm old friends is always best 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts or at best part of the public character or at worst catchwords.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately even though there's pressure to.

If the Frieze Art Fair catches on I imagine at least two great things happening. First we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste momentary glitches in an artist's work or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times however these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.