An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.

I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.

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

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.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.