“We wouldn’t want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We’d be rich!”

Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.

Greece isn’t a democracy now it’s run through a troika – three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can’t do.

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

We do have, I’m sad to say, a fifth column that is living within our own countries that is utterly opposed to our values, we’re going to have to be a lot braver… in standing up for our Judaeo-Christian culture.

It’s about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It’s about health and safety regulations and green fines.

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.

While we’re members of the European Union, we don’t have an immigration policy. We can’t have an immigration policy. It’s a charade for people to pretend we do.

No deals with the Tories; it’s war.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

It’s amazing how ideas start out, isn’t it?

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

I’ve got to see the Brexit process through. We’ve won the war but we must win the peace.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it’s about everyday lives.

Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

First you imitate, then you innovate.