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

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.

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.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

The great are inspired. The extraordinary inspire.

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me.

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

I’ve learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice.

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!

Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.