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You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.