All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.

I do believe that painting can change the world.

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

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

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.