What you have to do is break all the rules.

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

What you have to do is break all the rules.

I wanted to get it all down, maybe out of my system. I wanted to be able to say, Everything's possible-if you believe and can get excited.

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

I am not a juicy painter.