Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.