Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.