I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I always try to make everyone mellow down, make sure everybody's happy. The people I have employed have always kind of stayed with us. A lot of people who come to work for you are artists in their own right. And they want to work for you because they want to pick something up.