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!'

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

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

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look

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