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.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

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