Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.