"Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them…"

"Art is a guaranty of sanity."

"I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw i…"

"At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering – the father saying something, the mother c…"

"England is very, very important to me, because in my family the English could do no wrong. When my father picked a mi…"

"I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know …"

"The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still …"

"What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that th…"

"I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get ma…"

"I became aware of Louise Bourgeois in my first or second year at Brighton Art College. One of my teachers, Stuart Mor…"