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I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.
No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.
There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
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.
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.
An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.
Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.
I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.
I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.
Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.
Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.
The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.