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.

If you are not playful you are not alive.

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

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

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?

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.