I thought I might have to give up art, but I couldn't think of anything else to do.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

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.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

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

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.

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