Complain, if you want, about the giant mark-up, but that is beside the point for a buyer who perceives that he is acquiring a work of art.

FORBES: Time Is Money

But inside, an entirely different aesthetic prevailed: Abstract Expressionist paintings by family friends and frequent visitors like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman were positioned beside Minimalist sculptures by the sisters' father, Tony Smith, who was both a celebrated art theorist and something of a homebody.

WSJ: Kiki and Seton Smith, Sisters and Artists

The author once made a list of all the pieces he had written in maybe twenty or thirty years, and then put a check mark beside each one whose subject related to things he had been interested in before he went to college.

NEWYORKER: Progression