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" Britain is a very small country with a very large press. "

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" 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. "

" I prefer living in color. "

" To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature. "

" The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off. "

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

" I've realized that I can do performances. "

" Easel painting means small painting. "

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

" 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. "

" The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art. "

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

" 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 do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening. "

" Like people, trees are all individuals. "

" I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. "

" You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. "

" I'm fed up with being bossed around. "

" 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. "

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

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