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

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

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

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

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.