Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

I do believe that painting can change the world.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'