Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

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

There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

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.'

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.