Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.