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.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

I do believe that painting can change the world.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.