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.

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.

Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

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

If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.

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.

Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.