And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.

My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.

What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.

I want to be in the studio. I want to be doing something. You just do whatever is at hand, and you don't even worry about whether it's going to be interesting or not interesting to anybody else-or even yourself. You just have to make something.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

I get the feeling that sometimes the ideas work very well when you're doing them in the studio alone.

It's just strange to think about...whether I'll be an artist or what I'll be doing.