Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

Sometimes I just have a few people over to see the new work, and I think it works better than in a museum situation, where the public is just presented with a large area.

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

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.

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

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.