But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

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

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.

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.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.