I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.