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" It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. "

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

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

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

" All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now. "

" I prefer living in color. "

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

" Easel painting means small painting. "

" I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close. "

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

" 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. "

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