Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

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

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.