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1 Rachel Whiteread

I make all this stuff in the studio, but I also work on these white

elephants - like House or Untitled Monument

- things that are incredibly ambitious,

take an awful long time to do, involve a

lot of controversy, an awful lot of people, and don't make any money particularly,

but it's just because I need to make them.

3 Joseph Kosuth

The 'value' of particular artists after Duchamp

can be weighed according to

how much they questioned the

nature of art.

5 Tracey Emin

Thinking about the narcissism behind what I do - the self,

self, self - and how difficult it is

for me to really share things, even though

I think I am sharing all

the time.

7 Cornelia Parker

Capitalism compels us to

work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses

with things we don't need.

Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new

aesethetic, one of austerity.

9 The Chapman Brothers

Don't expect honesty from artists at any

time. Massive delicate egos and a myopic view of reality

don't make for any kind of study. Artists

aren't that special.

11 Martin Creed

I don't know what art is.

13 Anish Kapoor

One does not set out with the

idea that I've just had a great

idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out.

Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go

anywhere.

15 Michael Craig-Martin

It's about the way everything's bombarding

us for our attention. They're about here

and now - the moment you're looking at them.

I use colours that are sometimes referred to as eye-candy, as

though they were simply there to be seductive. But then other people

describe me as a conceptualist. What

really interestes me is the combination of the two. The contradiction.

17 Damien Hirst

It was like gold because

it was me, but, really,

it's shit.