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If we are to change our world view, images have to change.
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.
People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.
A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.
The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.
The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.