Originality is for people with short memories

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.

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.

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've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

The only way you will advance spiritually is through humility.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops!

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

Leadership is based on complex phenomena.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it's Rocky.

Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration