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

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

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.