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

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

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

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

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" Like people, trees are all individuals. "

" Spring is very energising to me. "

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

" You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. "

" When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.' "

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" The moment rules over everything. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. "

" 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. "

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

" Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill. "

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

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