Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

So little of what could happen does happen.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.