Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

My paintings are rubbish.

I left school on my 15th birthday.