People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they paint shadows in European art? Shadows are because of optics. Optics need shadows and strong light. Strong light makes the deepest shadows. It took me a few years to realize fully that the art historians didn't grasp that. There are a lot of interesting new things, ideas, pictures.

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

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