I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

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

Tragedy is a literary concept.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.