"I am angry with him but I have compassion for him. The reason I can have a relationship with him is that I don’t see him as my father but as an individual. I’m glad I didn’t murder him that day. I couldn’t have lived with myself if I had."

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“Britain's greatest cultural asset”

“a seething, dyslexic, better-looking British Bukowski”

“I like being on the margins. You work better there.”

“I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.”

“Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that — because I wasn't prepared to be controlled. I agreed to co-found the Stuckists to be allowed to say what I wanted, and I left the Stuckists because I didn't really want to be in them in the first place.”

“Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don’t like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.”

Resonant Thoughts

"242 Nairs are being sent as prisoners. Categorise them according to their social and family status. After honouring them with Islam, sufficient dress materials may be given to the men and their women."

— Tipu Sultan

Music1973

#family

"There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other—by language, which is the parent, and n…"

— Oscar Wilde

Literature1854–1900

#family

"In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible."

— Ai Weiwei

Art1957

#power

"And my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now I could drink now and then, though never often enough. Drink was the only thing that kept a man …"

— Charles Bukowski

Literature1920–1994

#life