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

I primarily buy art to show it off.

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.

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

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.

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.

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