About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got a shadow in front of them when they take a picture and don't notice it, and then they see it in the photograph because the photograph will catch the shadow.

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

If you are not playful you are not alive.

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

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'