When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.

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.

If we obey the great laws, we shall be happy.

Our mind, keep all the record of our emotions, wrapped in hope and preserve it.

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

He ran from one side of the cage, and then back again, which was not very far. It was far only if you were a puppy.

Listening to evangelicals bridges major political fault line.

If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

Nothing personal, it's just business

I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.