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?

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

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

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

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.