I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

- Sam Taylor-Wood

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

- Sam Taylor-Wood

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

- Sam Taylor-Wood

People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of…

- Sam Taylor-Wood

I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

- Sam Taylor-Wood

Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, "Oh, that's…

- Sam Taylor-Wood

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was in…

- Sam Taylor-Wood

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

- Sam Taylor-Wood

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

- Sam Taylor-Wood