I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
I love art. It is uplifting.
For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
The idea is more important than the object.
I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.
For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no money it's easy to just drink your way through it and make great art. But if you're making lots of money it can be very problematic.
Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.
As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.
I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.
I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.
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