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Traditional conceptual art is very dry.
Dust, in the end, settles on everything.
My iPhone has always been my sketchbook.
Product design is fed by the avant-garde.
Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain.
I don't skip meals, because I get blood sugary.
If you conceal things, they become more charged.
I don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers.
I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock.
I hadn't the personality to be a long-term Success.
I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art.
I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B.
I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood.
I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain.
I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.
I want to make work that reflects different times and processes.
I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends.
I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that.
I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.
If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops.
New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.
As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps.
Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden.
I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.
If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change.
I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character.
If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it.
I am 5ft 10in. I got my height from my dad, who was very rangy. I like being tall.
My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.
I have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long.
The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal.
Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.
I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.
I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be.
I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding.
If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill.
There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.
I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.
not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.
I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom.
Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with.
I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.
If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses?
I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively.
I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.
The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.
To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick.
I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons.
Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.
I'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon, a sort of reverse archaeology.