All ideas grow out of other ideas

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

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

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

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic

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?

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