West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

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

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.