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" 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. "

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" Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there? "

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" 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. "

" I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West. "

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

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" Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? "

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" 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. "

" Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. "

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

" I've realized that I can do performances. "

" I'm a natural sceptic. "

" I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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