Arthur Smith

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.

I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an immediate response from their audience; a laugh is a rare thing in a gallery.

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.