I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.

I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.

I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.