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" 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. "

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" But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't. "

" Anything simple always interests me. "

" And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh. "

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

" The moment rules over everything. "

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

" 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. "

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

" People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art. "

" I value my friends. "

" But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years. "

" It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. "

" I live wherever I happen to be. "

" Tragedy is a literary concept. "

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

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

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

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

" Like people, trees are all individuals. "

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

" Easel painting means small painting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Spring is very energising to me. "

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

" 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. "

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