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" A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. "

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" I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. "

" I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West. "

" 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. "

" California is always in my mind. "

" I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really. "

" I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever. "

" I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. "

" All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose. "

" I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. "

" I'm a natural sceptic. "

" Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. "

" Anything simple always interests me. "

" When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. "

" I did come from a pretty independent-minded family. "

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

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

" I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. "

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

" My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else. "

" I paint what I like, when I like and where I like. "

" I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. "

" I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles. "

" Spring is very energising to me. "

" Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. "

" Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. "

" Tragedy is a literary concept. "

" Easel painting means small painting. "

" West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things. "