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- "A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot ..."
- "And I think, you know, I like it, so I can't understand it, I think ..."
- "Anything you can do with your hands and feet. Great. "
- "Artists are like everybody else. "
- "Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a ..."
- "But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... ..."
- "But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're ..."
- "But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene. "
- "But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was ..."
- "But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just ..."
- "But then architects don't build their own houses. "
- "But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring ..."
- "Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual ..."
- "I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not ..."
- "I always ignore money. "
- "I can't deny it's influenced by Jaws. "
- "I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert ..."
- "I don't really buy any, but I have a lot of friends who do, so ..."
- "I don't really have a career plan. "
- "I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they ..."
- "I have a Californian girlfriend and she's into a lot of Californian bands so I ..."
- "I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my ..."
- "I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff. "
- "I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up. "
- "I made one untitled piece. "
- "I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, ..."
- "I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing. "
- "I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day. "
- "I think if you've made it, why not name it? "
- "I think it's just, I really enjoy art, and I just hope that when people ..."
- "I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life. "
- "I thought it might be nice to have a little line on the side going, ..."
- "I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough ..."
- "I've seen things that are 200 years old, in formaldehyde. "
- "Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. "
- "In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ..."
- "In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to ..."
- "It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time ..."
- "It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title ..."
- "It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love. "
- "Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and ..."
- "My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then ..."
- "One thing leads to another with my work. "
- "Renting's happier. It's fluid, as well. If you're renting, you're fluid. If you buy, you're ..."
- "So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because ..."
- "Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better. "
- "The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is ..."
- "There's a lot of things that people don't like, I think it'd be difficult for ..."
- "There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... ..."
- "There's no possible way you can get what you want. "
- "To me it's like, this is the kind of world I live in and these ..."
- "We have had some animal rights things but they all get the facts wrong so ..."
- "What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect. "
- "Whenever I go to another city to do an art exhibition, the only way to ..."
- "Whereas if you suddenly go, OK, I choose to die now, you take the matter ..."
- "Yeah, maybe a morbid sense of humour, I wouldn't say it was sick, but maybe ..."
