"Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional."

“It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.”

“We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.”

“A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.”

“Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.”

Source : Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.418, Butterworth-Heinemann

“I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.”

“Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.”

“When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.”

“The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.”

Source : Bede Griffiths (1990). “A New Vision of Reality: Western Science, Eastern Mysticism and Christian Faith”, Templegate Pub