Well, art is not for 99% of the population. It really wouldn’t matter how much you gave them in terms of pegs on which to hang their own perceptions. It wouldn’t matter. But for the 1%, then it’s the thing that makes their lives worth living.

Art is… you know, what is art? Art for me is painting and drawing, sculpture, architecture. And I know I can’t live without them. I don’t have to think about it anymore, but in the days when I skied, you know, the first three days up the mountains were wonderful, and then an itch… whatever companions I was with would say, 'Oh God, you know, he wants us to go to Munich or Vienna or somewhere for the day'.

Yes, I do. And I need to look at something. I don’t care. I just need to look at something. I can’t… I can spend three days on a beach, but then I have to go and find a gallery. Which has been great fun. It just… I guess my awareness of really bad painting in really bad provincial galleries all over Europe has come entirely out of this addiction. And it is an addiction. And I… I get withdrawal symptoms if I can’t look at something. And it needn’t be good. I just have to see something.