Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80

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

I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist