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

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.

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.

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.