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.

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

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all.

I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.