I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

You don’t need to provide answers to question like “why were you born?”. Be committed to what excites you and what excites you will provide the answers!

I don't like going to the gym.

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

Happiness is impossible without gratitude.

If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

You really have to look inside yourself to find your inner strength.

When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.

I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.

The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.

If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.