I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

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.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.