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

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.