Have enough sense to know ahead of time when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.

Technology is making design more exciting with color wallpaper textures fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007 creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness operatic uncontrollability and barbaric sculptural power.