If you're in the culture business, you're not so locked in to your class, or you can have fun with it.

If you want to be successful in the art world you've got to look to the art world; you don't make it for the bloke next door and then hope the art world is going to look at it. That's one of the big mistakes people make.

If you're in the culture business, you're not so locked in to your class, or you can have fun with it.

It is true that there are not many smiling faces in modern art galleries. Happy art is much harder to make. Art and humour are uneasy bedfellows. Artists need strong feelings to motivate them to make things. I am often fuelled by anger.

Desmond Morris says that men make better artists because they are greater risk-takers; on the other hand, he thinks that women are better organisers and diplomats and more suited to become politicians.

The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

Originality is for people with short memories