I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.

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.

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.

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.

We're not making mistakes. We're making experiences.

Even though I have not yet met you, you are part of me and I am part of you.

Doubt is what keeps the heart and mind of every man alive. It 's what makes us think twice.

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!

My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty.

The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises.