I want to start where language ends.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

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.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.

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.

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