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

I primarily buy art to show it off.

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.

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

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?

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