The Rolling Stones have opened up about their future, saying that they have no plans to split up.

The rock icons revealed the news at the opening of a new gallery exhibition centered on the band at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

"People have said we're splitting up since every tour from about 1975," Keith Richards said during an interview at the opening.

"If anybody should be interested in when we're going to quit, it should be the Stones, and they're not particularly interested in doing so," he added.

Fellow guitarist Ronnie Wood added, "The exhibition is an insight into an ongoing machine and institution that will never stop rumbling.

We didn't get into this exhibition with the thought of retiring.

It's just another input into the travelling circus."