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" A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. "
Just
Belief
Heavy
" All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose. "
You
Film
Even
" All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. "
Photography
Interested
Painters
" A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me. "
You
Chance
Up
" Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it. "
You
House
Look
" And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh. "
Well
Corner
Love
" Anything simple always interests me. "
Simple
Always
Anything
" Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there? "
Myself
Work
World
" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "
Design
Bus
Art
" 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. "
Me
World
Comedy
" As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it. "
You
Keep
Work
" Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that. "
Well
Things
Who
" Britain is a very small country with a very large press. "
Very
Small
Press
" But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well. "
Pictures
You
Thinking
" But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years. "
Photography
Long
Me
" But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't. "
Picture
Camera
You
" California is always in my mind. "
Mind
California
Always
" 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!' "
Change
Look
Perspective
" Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. "
Mind
You
Ahead
" Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. "
You
Eyes
Things
" Easel painting means small painting. "
Means
Small
Painting
" East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. "
Rivers
Valleys
Looks
" Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill. "
Enjoyment
Thrill
Landscape
" I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. "
You
Makes
See
" I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. "
Days
Me
Because
" I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them. "
Done
Camera
I Can
" I did come from a pretty independent-minded family. "
Pretty
Did
Come
" I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening. "
Because
Me
Talking
" I don't value prizes of any sort. "
Prizes
Value
Sort
" I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. "
Flowers
Fresh
Morning
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