East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.

Nature, never, never let's you down, it's not a cliché, nature isn't a cliché, pictures might be, but you can get tired of pictures.

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.

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