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

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

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.

OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?