I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

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

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.