Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

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

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.