I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.
It’s very easy to say, ‘I could have done that,’ after someone’s done it. But I did it. You didn’t. It didn’t exist until I did it.
I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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.
But I’m more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg’s my main influence.
As an artist, you don’t stop making art because people are not buying it.
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, but it’s such a big thing that you can’t.
I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say “f off”. But after a while you can get away with things.
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.
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 I like big issues, but I don’t believe in God or religion.
Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I’d write it down.
The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it.
Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.
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.
As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear.
Never let money get in the way of an idea.
I wanted a shark that’s big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.
But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.