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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Britain is a very small country with a very large press. "

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

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

" I did come from a pretty independent-minded family. "

" Easel painting means small painting. "

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

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" We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. "

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

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

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

" I don't value prizes of any sort. "

" In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. "

" In my old age, I'll be in L.A. "

" The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off. "

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

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

" The moment rules over everything. "

" 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 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. "

" Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. "

" I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. "

" Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood. "

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" There are enough no smoking places now. "