I think it's just, I really enjoy art, and I just hope that when people come and see the exhibition, I want them to be just grabbed and thrown around a bit by visual things. |
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, just in case, of doing famous people's pets for them, in formaldehyde. |
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. |
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 ashtray has got life and death. |
In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking. |
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. |
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw. |
It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something. |
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 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. |
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. |
One thing leads to another with my work. |