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The Job Of The Artist Is To Make A Gesture And Really Show People What Their Potential Is. It's Not About The Object, And It's Not About The Image; It's About The Viewer. That's Where The Art Happens.

The First Thing That Any Good Artist Has To Develop Is A Sense Of Independence From The Artworld. What Really Destroys A Young Artist Is Insecurity, The Fear That Everything Could Be Taken Away At Any Moment.

I'm Interested In Power. I'm Interested In The Kind Of Polarities And Equilibriums That Take Place Within Sexuality And Philosophy And Sociology. So In Versailles, In This Type Of Setting, You Have A Place That Is About Absolute Control, Where Everything Has Been Thought About.

I Don't Think Irony Is About Judgment; I Think Irony Is Something Like, "oh, That's Interesting," Because It's Not Something I Think One Starts Off To Achieve. I Think It's Just Something That Presents Itself. And If It Does, I Find It's Usually Optimistic, Not Negative In Its Terms.

Anything You Can Do To Protect The Public And Allow It To Have The Confidence That Our Financial Controls Are Good Is Very, Very Positive.