One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

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

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.

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

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