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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

There are enough no smoking places now.

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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

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

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

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

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

I'm a natural sceptic.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants...

I've always felt very English.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

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