No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract to express it in the most general terms to find some universal formula for it.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City as they call it - London the people of the south.

Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist in love with art smitten with art history. You're also a woman with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

If thou art a man admire those who attempt great things even though they fail.

Art in itself is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.