The Idea Is More Important Than The

I Was Brought Up Catholic, And I Felt The Power Of Art From A Very Young Age - Seeing The Brutality Of All Those Images Of Flayed Apostles And Tortured Saints Was A Pretty Strong Introduction.

Sensation Is An Element Of What I Do, And Why Not? It's Not Sensational For The Sake Of Being Sensational, But It's Sensational Art... It's Like Touching Skin.

I Can't Wait To Get Into A Position To Make Really Bad Art And Get Away With It. At The Moment If I Did Certain Things People Would Look At It, Consider It And Then Say "f Off". But After A While You Can Get Away With Things.

I Wanted A Shark That's Big Enough To Eat You, And In A Large Enough Amount Of Liquid So That You Could Imagine You Were In There With It.

But The Answer To How To Live Is To Stop Thinking About It. And Just To Live. But You're Doing That Anyway. However You Intellectualise It, You Still Just Live.