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.

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

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.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.