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

I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look

I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.