A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it..

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion..

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm ….

We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. T….

My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable..

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is….

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence..

Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that - because I wasn't prepar….

I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it..

I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love..

We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant to be on a cushy wicket in the South. If ….

I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzz….

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is tha….

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw..

Artists who don't paint aren't artists..

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny su….

I like being on the margins. You work better there..

I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can ….

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie..

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you are….

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner..