There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

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've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.