Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

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

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.