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I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

I'm enamored with the art world.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.

Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.