Sometimes buying the ugly work is the thing that you know you should do.

Sometimes buying the ugly work is the thing that you know you should do.

An "I know what I like" mentality is hard to shake, but of course appreciation has space for being challenged.

I have a merely ethical and moral relationship to collecting. Whereby I never collect things that I necessarily like. I collect things by young artists who don't have any money because I need to give them some money! Because I think that they should carry on whether I like it or not.

I wasn't taken to anywhere I would have gone if I was alone.

I always say artists must broaden their research. I go to casinos, fly fishing, to show apartments in new residential buildings, watch fairs, the football, ikebana courses, survival expeditions, Dungeons & Dragons nights, and it doesn't matter which of these I personally want to do — that is my job. That’s true research; otherwise, it would be a bit like masturbating.