Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

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