Artist Quotes

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.

It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

It pleases me that people can be interactive.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world.

I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.

I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I'm really good fun and then I'm really not fun.

I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.

I never grew up.

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the m

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.