Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.
Most people don’t do something seminal. I’ve done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.
I’ve worked really hard. I’ve made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I’d be remembered for making them. There are a lot of artists who, no matter how hard they work in their lives, will never make anything seminal.
When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it’s my words that actually make my art quite unique.
I’ve been slagged off completely by the art world.
What’s really good about the word ‘art’ is that ‘art’ is a word like ‘love,’ or ‘god,’ or whatever. It transcends so many things...
The idea that I’m going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I’m going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.
My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn’t interested in contemporary art at all.
I’ve got over so much. Mum wouldn’t want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.