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

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

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

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.