I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.
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.'