Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

We wait patiently to receive want we desire.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some good, some bad, and they will be his legacy to the world of acting.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

I love you, Sir Marco!