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

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" I prefer living in color. "

" You must plan to be spontaneous. "

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

" California is always in my mind. "

" Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world! "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The moment rules over everything. "

" 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. "

" I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it. "

" I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. "

" You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. "

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

" Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs. "

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

" Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill. "

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

" I'm not antisocial. I like people. "

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

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

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