The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

I think it's just, I really enjoy art, and I just hope that when people come and see the exhibition, I want them to be just grabbed and thrown around a bit by visual things.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.