I primarily buy art to show it off.

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

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.

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

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

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he made for very relaxing company, quick to be amused at the world and his own peccadilloes. He enjoyed the seedy squalor of his rooms in a posh house in the most desirable part of Holland Park, and living up to his persona as an oddball bohemian.