I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It has the ability to convince you that it's present - that it's there. You could say it's authentic... but real is actually a better word, broad as it may be.

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

The aim of art is to create space.

Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.