"I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to other paintings, or in different rooms. Paintings can change the way we experience and see the world."

“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”

“Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.”

“That's how you win - pitching and defense.”

“The movement really has evolved because their initial demands [such as factory codes of conduct and disclosure of supplier names and addresses] have virtually all been met. This recent idea of factory certification is building on what they got some time ago.”

“It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”

“Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of cows, moving slowly in the direction they are being driven towards. If we make one point, we have a good chance that the audience will take the right direction; if we make several points, then the cows will scatter all over the field. The audience will lose interest and everyone will go back to the thoughts they interrupted in order to come to our lecture.”

Source : Gian-Carlo Rota (2008). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.196, Springer Science & Business Media

“Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.”

“If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.”