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Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with.
People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore; I just have to do it. I feel compelled to make a work: it's like an itch I have to scratch, and once it's been scratched, it goes away.
Product design is fed by the avant-garde.
Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space.
That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by domestic things.
The best ideas come out of getting lost.
The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal.
There's only a couple of coffee cups I'll use, because I like the way they feel in my hand. I realise I've got lots of others, but I won't use them because I just don't like... the thickness of the ceramic is too much, or the glaze isn't right.
To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick.
Traditional conceptual art is very dry.
Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and part of it is violent, and I'd rather it be out than in.
What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don't need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity.
When I was a kid, my mother used to say, 'You always want to be different.' I couldn't work out what she meant. I was just trying to be myself.
When people listen to music, they don't worry about what it means like they do about art. Everyone's an expert on music, but with art, I always find I have to defend its existence.
Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don't need experts?
You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the whole emotional spectrum in your work, it helps to have experienced intense emotions.
You only get one life, so it seems to me you might as well do the things you want to do.
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