SM: Let’s start with a trivial question: why Gilbert and George and no — Gilbert & George

"We think of our art as just pictures, not as photographs. We are using photography, not being photographers."

"If you are submerged in normal life, then your view will be normal. So we have to keep separate from normal life in order to be able to say something that is not known. People come to art for something that they don’t understand, that’s not in their life already."

"George: One man naked is a male study; more than one, well... thats quite serious - two men naked are more naked than one."

"George: We say that how we are that day made us do that picture and we have to respect that. If you have another thought, thats another picture; it would be another one."

"We like to think that we’re forming our tomorrows, that we’re making pictures that don’t exist in reality, that maybe tomorrow will be a little bit more like our pictures than it would otherwise."

"To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought."