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

If you are not playful you are not alive.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

...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.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.