I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

It takes a long time to make it simple.

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.

In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

You must plan to be spontaneous.