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

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

It's the role of the artist to pursue content

If sculpture can really deal with the body, because we all inhabit ourselves, and if sculpture can really do that, which it is supposed to be able to do, and through it ask questions, philosophical questions, about being, I think these are all things we work on, all of us in our different ways, so perhaps somewhere in there, there are moments where dumb objects can speak.

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

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

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury