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Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.

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

The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

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.