I'm concerned with not ever being fashionable.
Art is not some fun add-on to life.
Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.
It is true that there are not many smiling faces in modern art galleries. Happy art is much harder to make. Art and humour are uneasy bedfellows. Artists need strong feelings to motivate them to make things. I am often fuelled by anger.
To appreciate art you’ve got to work at it a bit.
Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.