Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.

I've nothing to say.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.