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

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

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.

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.

Everything you’re telling me was just a story, and now it’s real.

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.