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" 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. "

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" A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me. "

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

" 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!' "

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

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

" 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 value my friends. "

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

" Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it. "

" Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs. "

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

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

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

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

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

" There are enough no smoking places now. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Spring is very energising to me. "

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

" 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.' "

" Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. "

" Anything simple always interests me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. "

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

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

" Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing? "