A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.

A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.

Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.

I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."

The subject comes first, the medium second.

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative and not just in terms of politics - how if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes. Sometimes the opposite can happen, but it's usually the other way around.