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

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

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

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

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.