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

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

" I don't value prizes of any sort. "

" Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood. "

" 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. "

" I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music. "

" Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. "

" 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. "

" I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. "

" Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. "

" Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. "

" I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. "

" Anything simple always interests me. "

" Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. "

" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington. "

" The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough. "

" California is always in my mind. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it. "

" A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me. "

" I value my friends. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a bit of a propagandist. "