What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things..

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique..

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism..

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong..

The soul will always do what it needs to do..

Criticism on my works is like this: you've worked hard all of your life, you went to Oxford, and you've done this and that, and you're an art critic.….

When I have an exhibition, I usually arrange it so that if people want to, they can spend two hours there. That way, people who like it don't feel ch….

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up..

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences..

I know people went to laugh at my bed and to jeer at it. Still, at least they actually went to see it..

The reason why I'm popular as an artist in this country is because it suits the psyche of the nation at this time. Ten years ago, my work wouldn't ha….

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever..

I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that ther….

There are things going on in galleries recently that have shocked me. What I'm going to say is really controversial, but what I find the most provoca….

I found that life has to be edited to continue..

Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart would just stop beating? I am longing now, but fo….

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me..

I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for making them. There are a lot of ….

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted….

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more dif….

I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist..