I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

Continuity is boring.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.

I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.