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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. "

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" I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close. "

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" I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. "

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" 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. "

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

" I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. "

" I value my friends. "

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