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

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" People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure. "

" It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. "

" 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. "

" 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 live wherever I happen to be. "

" 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 value my friends. "

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

" Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Tragedy is a literary concept. "

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

" 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. "

" I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will. "

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

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

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

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

" I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light. "

" 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. "

" Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. "

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

" Easel painting means small painting. "