The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.

We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

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.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.