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.

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

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

Always live in the ugliest house on the street – then you don’t have to look at it

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.

No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso...

the great strength is that the art worked outside of galleries and museums. It did not need them. (They need it.)

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

When she told me that, I told her, well, shut up, because Mr and Mrs Clark and Blanche doesn’t sound as good as Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy. And it was my title, not...

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

We grow small trying to be great.

Well you can’t teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

You destroy bohemia.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about...

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.

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

Smoking calms me down. It?s enjoyable. I don?t want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you’re using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.

What I didn’t know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

Smoking, … calms me down. And it’s enjoyable. A little bit of what you fancy does you good. I don’t want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. These are decisions you make yourself,...

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with...

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.

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

There are enough no smoking places now.

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Well, I was amazed, really. I mean, only because of the other company. I was quite amazed.

Someone has to speak up. It’s a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.

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

It’s really about liberty. I’m very concerned about a growing intolerance and bossiness throughout society. Pubs are not health clubs.

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...

Pubs aren’t health clubs. To me, we’re creating a suburban dreariness that would drive me mad.

I’m a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

Anything simple always interests me.

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...

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.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed.