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

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

" East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. "

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

" 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. "

" Easel painting means small painting. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. "

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

" As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more. "

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

" Spring is very energising to me. "

" You must plan to be spontaneous. "

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

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

" Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn. "

" Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. "