Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind

David Murray is a great businessman but knows nothing about football. If he did, he’d have sacked McLeish long ago.

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.

What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time – condemned to painting for life.

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let’s knock them while they’re alive.

The college undergraduate is a lot of things – many of them as familiar, predictable and responsible as the bounce of a basketball, and others as startling (and occasionally disastrous) as the bounce of a...