I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.