The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

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

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.