Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.