Anything simple always interests me.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

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

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.