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,'

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?