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I'm quite a social person, quite a communicator, and I like to have the work of other people around.

When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in my own work.

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My work is very serious, and I use a lot of black, too.

I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even finished asking the question, I said, 'Impurity.' Because that's it.

If you stand over on the edge of the west coast of Ireland and look west, you are looking at something you can't see, only imagine. You know America is there, and you can imagine it being there. But you're...

Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare!

Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the way plants and water shape the world.

I'm really in the business of unifying these two tendencies that have been at odds in our human history for a very long time: the logical and the romantic.

My job is to return abstraction to the people: in a sense, to popularize it without lowering the bar, which is a lot easier said than done.

Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.

I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art.

I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.

My childhood was extremely unhappy. That's not to say that my parents didn't love me. But it was traumatic, and of course, art doesn't come out of rosy gardens. It comes out of damage.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose...

I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on the treadmill and look around at all of my paintings while I exercise. I try to stare them...

I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner.

As a child, the most important people in my life were my pet rabbit and Mary, mother of Jesus.

My father was a genius footballer, a natural, two-footed centre-forward who had played for Arsenal juniors, but he was sent out to work aged 14 and so lived out his life in a frustrated, rageful way.

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