I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

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

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.