Enthusiasm

‘I know no more perfect portrait of artist and muse’

‘Her work challenges the way 20th-century history has been shaped in our cultural imaginaries’

‘No other installation has come close to the swooning sensation of seeing Bourgeois’s work for the first time’

‘Purifoy conjured life from practically nothing: ten pairs of used trousers, discarded trainers, a few spare planks’

‘He wasn’t English, but he was playing an English game, the fag in the Establishment, a light entertainer, undisguised yet somehow unseen, an open secret’

‘Gray’s presence is painted on the city; he’s a local, living myth’

We look back on 28 years of publishing by remembering what inspires us

‘Do you remember what that was like seeing great art and knowing nothing about its maker or context?’

‘These works render the real, estranged personalities of our present perturbing, alluring; exquisite’

‘The Western that heroized pioneers unsettling the West was moribund. Unforgiven, an anti-Western Western, buried it.’

‘I knew, while trying that chair, that I wanted whatever the future had to offer’

For all the camp and capering, Eddie and Patsy’s antics also have a plaintive, even existential tinge

‘A magical, fucked-up masterpiece’

‘After Kurzweil’s book landed with a thud in the centre of our culture, it was impossible not to address its claims’

‘She introduced me to the borderland of craft, for which I count myself very lucky’

‘The people from whom I learn most are enthusiasts, who take my soul to places I never knew existed.’

Once eclipsed by the men in her life, the architect’s supreme originality and energy are slowly being recognized

‘Released following the musician’s death in 1993, the album is an extraordinary swan song: morose, comical and utterly preposterous’

‘To me, it offers a particular emotional experience – something like joyful grief’

‘I started to read Mayröcker’s work obsessively. She became one of the few writers whose every written word I have read’