It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

Tragedy is a literary concept.