Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

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We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

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Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.

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I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

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A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

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The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

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One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

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That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

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I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

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