One Of My Biggest Problems In Life

I Liked Drawing And Painting, Because The Only Failure Would Be To Listen To The Doubters Who Wanted Me To Stop Drawing And Painting Because 'you Aren't Going To Make A Living Doing That.' I Liked Looking In Art Books At The Work Of Painters.

We Are Not Actually In Charge Of Life, Yet We Behave As If We Are The Masters Of Our Own Destiny. The Realization Of This Fact Is Quite A Hard One. The Ridiculousness Of Our Pomposity And Presumption Can Only Result In Anger Or Humor.

Artists Who Don't Paint Aren't Artists.

Being A Fan Of Authentic Dada, I Find Today's Art - What I Call 'bankers' Dada' - Mind-numbingly Dull. The Most Challenging Work I've Seen Of Late Is By The British Art Resistance. Their Document, 'a Call For Heroes In An Age Of Cowards', Is Apt In These Days Of Witless Chancers.

Bowie And Mccartney Arrived, And The Biscuits And Caviare Started And I Left Immediately. I Don't Like Shouting Across Rooms, With People In Shiny Suits Who Look Like Used-car Salesmen.