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I always ignore money.
I made one untitled piece.
I love art. It is uplifting.
Artists are like everybody else.
I don't really have a career plan.
You need a big ego to be an artist.
For me, art is always a kind of theater.
Never let money get in the way of an idea
The idea is more important than the object.
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
But then architects don't build their own houses.
When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.
The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it.
I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.
What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.
The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in.
I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.
As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.
I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.
I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.
Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.