In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.