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

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" I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. "

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

" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "

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

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

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

" California is always in my mind. "

" I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really. "

" I'm a bit of a propagandist. "

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

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

" I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles. "

" West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things. "

" 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. "

" The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. "

" 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. "

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

" I prefer living in color. "

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

" 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. "

" Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill. "

" Tragedy is a literary concept. "

" Like people, trees are all individuals. "

" A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "