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.

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

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

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.