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.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

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.

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