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.

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

You must plan to be spontaneous.