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

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

I primarily buy art to show it off.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

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

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

If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.