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.

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

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

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

Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

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

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.