It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.