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

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

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

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

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