Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.

To appreciate art you’ve got to work at it a bit.

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.

Creativity is mistakes.

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

Originality is for people with short memories

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

I always say to people if you want to see what Britain looks like, watch Gogglebox. It's brilliant and funny and warm and clever.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized it is a quality of thought a state of mind.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

Language uses us as much as we use language.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too.