Something of God. . . flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.
There are enough no smoking places now.
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
Nobody brings numbers to life like Horace Dediu does.
Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?
I think he was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous. (On Benitez)
Dark circles are my charisma though.