One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring to expression, it's not my role to be expressive.
It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.
I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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
Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic
We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
I, in the end, make art for myself.
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.