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

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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. "

" Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. "

" 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 was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough. "

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

" You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. "

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

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

" The moment rules over everything. "

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

" Anything simple always interests me. "