As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

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.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.