Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

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.