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.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.