What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

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

I like to combine different aspects in my work, to cover different areas, but I do see them as being separate.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

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.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.