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

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

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.

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 we begin to study the Scriptures, our souls shall be sanctified.

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

I've got quite a big fan base, and people like to see you do the same thing - that's why you get offered the same roles.

someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then) they said their nevers they slept their dream

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?