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.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

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

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

There are enough no smoking places now.