I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

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

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.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.