I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.

Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.