Its obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. Its vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our carbon footprint, has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

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

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.

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

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

Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.

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.