In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

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.

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.

I do believe that painting can change the world.

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.