I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

If human beings cannot inhabit the earth, can we live in heaven?

The harder it gets, the closer you are.

Did you tell people that songs weren’t the same as a warm body, a soft mouth?

She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.

How many books on manifesting will you buy before your realize that all you have manifested is a bunch of useless books? Do more than just wish

I've always really been a fan of scenes in which you're able to be as natural as you want.

I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better.