Why we love the Tate Modern

As London's most popular gallery celebrates its fifth birthday, artists choose their favourite works on show...

ANTHONY CARO: Picasso's Head of a Woman (Fernande), 1909
"I love Picasso's Head, simply because it is the greatest sculpture by the world's greatest sculptor."

DAVID TATE, GREAT-GREAT GRANDSON OF FOUNDER SIR HENRY TATE: Anthony Caro's Early One Morning, 1962
"I like this because it cheers me up. It's red; it's unusual. The Tate has a tradition of making modern art lovely - and the way that they present this piece is very striking."

ANTONY GORMLEY: Brancusi's Maiastra, 1912
"Maiastra, the bird, is the perfect amalgam of an egg and a penis, and manages to be both very modern and look like a cult object from some oceanic island. Its power belies its size."

DAMIEN HIRST: Matisse's The Snail, 1953
"The Snail gives me an erection. It's brilliant. A snail is so unimportant and slow and yet he makes it important and colourful. I love the way he makes a spiral out of squares."

HOWARD HODGKIN: Vuillard's Lunch at Vasouy, 1901
"This pair of pictures was once a large picture and was later divided and reworked. It fascinates me as the successful attempt by a very intimate and 'private' artist to make a painting on a public scale without it becoming a large decoration. The pictures have an immediacy and humanity in the context of Tate Modern, which is very appealing. I like this work, though it's far from being one of my favourites or one of the greatest in the collection. But in it's present setting it is somehow refreshing."

TRACEY EMIN: Untitled by Donald Judd, 1990
"Although he's not my favourite artist, I really love the Donald Judd "spiral". What I like best about the gallery is that the displays keep moving - which is very healthy. I loved the Louise Bourgeois spider - I only wish I could have started a love affair by saying, 'I'll meet you under the spider'."