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.

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.

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

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

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.

The bridge is said to bestow good luck on lovers who share a kiss right where we are standing.Ethan Sterling - Private Emotions

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.

Apologize!That's the least you can do to try to make right something you have wronged.

People don't get angry about the half a million dead Iraqis from the sanctions.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.

As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.

He treats me like the dirt under my feet.