I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

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

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.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.