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Art is difficult.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.