If you're in something and you feel like it's not going well, what can you do about that? It's out of your hands. No matter what you do, you're not g….

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and….

To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the p….

But a living is not a life..

The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of ….

Not everybody has things that become classics..

The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which,….

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a….

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the a….

Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which,….

Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially as we were invited….

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course..

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums..

In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is o….

Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's always ….

What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role o….

I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being compromised..

Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can tell truth throug….

To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence….

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrar….

Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo th….