The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
It is very important to develop the thing that you are naturally good at, that you are truly interested in.
If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.
Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.
The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it--he knew better how to use his money than that.
The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.