For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no money it's easy to just drink your way through it and make great art. But if you're making lots of money it can be very problematic.

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

Never let money get in the way of an idea

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