There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?