- Nov 07, 2020
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- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
- Else
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists are like everybody else.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
- Nov 07, 2020
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
- Piece
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made one untitled piece.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's no possible way you can get what you want.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 it.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always ignore money.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 it, you still just live.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, art is always a kind of theater.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need a big ego to be an artist.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020