It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

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.

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

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.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

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