If you are not playful you are not alive.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

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

I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.

It takes a long time to make it simple.