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

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.