Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.