When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades.