Sometimes the art world can be a scary place, and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it's okay to not know everything!
I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.
It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
Of course, museums and galleries and art spaces will continue to ground the art world. But certainly the public - as well as artists - also benefit when art is encountered in other everyday situations.
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
I think when you're collecting, the best advice is just 'see see see see.' The more you get used to the nuances of the art world and what people are doing and whose opinion matters, the more you can tune your own collection and know that these are works that do count; these are artists that will be of relevance tomorrow.
I'm the son of a doctor, and the key to working in the art world is to have boundaries of discretion.
My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.
I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.
The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.
