Being best is a false goal you have to measure success on your own terms.
I think I like big issues but I don't believe in God or religion.
The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that...
I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always...
No I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do...
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it experience it and it stays...
I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those...
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a...
Since I was a child death is definitely something that I think about every...
But I think it's more that when you're young you're invincible you're...
I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can...
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it so it's not really a...
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions so an ashtray is...
What society doesn't realize is that in the past ordinary people respected learning. They respected books and they don't now or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.