Gordon Burn: If you got to make a fool of somebody, who would it be?
Damien Hirst: God.
If you don’t have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
— Robert Rauschenberg
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn’t have an ego when it’s wanting to throw up. It just does it.
— Matthew Barney
Posted December 2, 2009 at 10:12am
…I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.
— George Baselitz
Posted November 29, 2009 at 10:08am
