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I am interested in the press and what they do.
I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is open to interpretation.
I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's true.
I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.
I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom.
I didn't really know what I was looking at when I first came across Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding,' his photograph of a work by Marcel Duchamp called 'Large Glass.' It looked like an aerial photograph or a view through a microscope.
I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood.
I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but I can't help feeling that the innocence of the accidental art of science has a power and curious beauty that artists are hard-pressed to match.
I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B.
I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain.
I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively.
I don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers.
I don't skip meals, because I get blood sugary.
I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.
I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it.
I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.
I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock.
I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But that made being an artist even more attractive.
I have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long.
I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.
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