I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

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

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.