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“While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.”
Source : Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.62, Library of Alexandria
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“Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.”
Source : Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn
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“The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about.”
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“Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings”
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“I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!”
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“You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.”
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“Making art is different for everyone.”
Source : "China Chow Talks Season 2 Of ‘Work Of Art’". Interview with Huffingtonpost, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011. 
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“Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.”
