I always say to people if you want to see what Britain looks like, watch Gogglebox. It's brilliant and funny and warm and clever.

I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.

To appreciate art you’ve got to work at it a bit.

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.

Creativity is mistakes.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

Originality is for people with short memories

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

As a success-minded person, you should always be looking to not only do your job but do it with excellence and go the extra mile.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

I think it's important when you're acting to be as relaxed as possible even if you're doing something intense. You're basically in a state of dynamic relaxation.

I love that my friends are all freaks.

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann.]

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.

Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.