When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.

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