Inspiration is for amateurs.

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.

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.