We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?