It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

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

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.

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