Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.

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 are enough no smoking places now.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.