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

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

" I prefer living in color. "

" What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s. "

" Like people, trees are all individuals. "

" Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that. "

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

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

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

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

" I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. "

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

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

" I value my friends. "

" Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. "

" 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. "

" On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger. "

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

" California is always in my mind. "

" I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. "

" You must plan to be spontaneous. "

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

" In my old age, I'll be in L.A. "

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