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

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

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.

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

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

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.