I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.