I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?