Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

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

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

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.

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