Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

I do believe that painting can change the world.

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

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.