I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

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.