I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose but to pass the time.

A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better.

If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but love stops you from being able to do that.