You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

As a woman you're not accessible to every world.

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.