It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

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.

You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.