Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

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.

There are enough no smoking places now.

I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.