Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.

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

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.