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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Easel painting means small painting. "

" I value my friends. "

" California is always in my mind. "

" 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. "

" Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. "

" I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond. "

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

" I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really. "

" Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. "

" I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders. "

" 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. "

" I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. "

" I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity. "

" 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. "

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

" I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard. "

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

" 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. "

" Spring is very energising to me. "

" Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. "

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

" Anything simple always interests me. "

" 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!' "