We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.

I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological weight that different materials have is pretty interesting to me.

You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.

It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting.

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.

You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.