Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

Inspiration is for amateurs.

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.