One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design.

I always believed, right from the beginning, if you're going to do something, do it the best. If you're going to work, you want to enjoy it-make a product that you really enjoy selling or owning.

Whatever nature gives us, we explore & we build on.

Your eye becomes more mature. What you don't see the first time, you keep looking, and eventually you'll see it. And when you are confident with what your eye sees, you know you've got to have it.

To enjoy the beauty of life, live in the moment, not in the past or future.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.