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I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

I love museums but I don't want to live in one.

Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

Museums, I love museums.