I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

Somebody will be exhibiting a bunch of bananas in a gallery, and they'll get me on to talk dirty about it.