- David Hammons: You can never be original. That is impossible, so we are all influenced and affected by other great artists and you call on them when you need them when you are making a piece or you try to oppress them when you are making a piece and not be influenced by them. Which is also very difficult, to not be influenced by the heroes. Because we are all trying to find our own language. And you never know when you've found that language or not. It is up to the viewer to decide if you've arrived.
- Richard Wentworth: I don't use the human figure in any kind of direct way, partly because it seems a kind of impertinence to try and remake it, and partly maybe because what I do is the result of human agency; I make things which are about the space that humans generate, all the things they throw off, all the stuff around some imaginary figure. So in a sense maybe I make the figure, but it's an absence, it's simply not a presence.
- Laurie Simmons: I think a lot of what I'm saying in these photographs is how hard it is for a woman to maintain her boundaries, and not metamorphose into what she's participating in in her life.