It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area
There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.
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.
When I have an exhibition, I usually arrange it so that if people want to, they can spend two hours there. That way, people who like it don't feel cheated when they go. I want them to walk into the exhibition space and look low and at other levels and angles. The same with emotions. I want them to be emotionally manipulated, to come out feeling something. I want them to laugh, smile, feel sad. Even if they feel angry, that's okay.
I like poor materials. I couldn't see myself making a bronze sculpture - it's not me. I like neon, because it's moving constantly and like drawing. The chemicals going through the neon turns me on really - it's sexy. I like fabrics, but one of the main things with objects is that I really have to love them before I can use them. I have to have the object around me a long time. The little chairs I used in my last White Cube show are ones that my dad bought for me. A sort of a psychometry with objects and things. It's like the pieces I've made are my things.
You can't choose where you belong, and where you don't. But what if the place you don't belong is the only place you have left?
All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.
Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine. . . so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.