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- But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise…
- I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to…
- Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid…
- It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
- Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
- The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
- I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
- 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,…
- I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
- Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the…
- A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
- In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
- Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
- But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless,…
- Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
- I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my…
- It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
- Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual…
- I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have…
- I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was…
- 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…
- 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…
- My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do…
- You need a big ego to be an artist.
- I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to…
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- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide