I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

I'm retiring because my time is up.

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.