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

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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. "

" Tragedy is a literary concept. "

" Easel painting means small painting. "

" Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. "

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

" Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world! "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders. "

" Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!' "

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

" I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I prefer living in color. "

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

" Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. "

" I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. "

" To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature. "

" I've always felt very English. "