I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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.
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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 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.
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
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.
I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
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.
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.'
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
I'm fed up with being bossed around.
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
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.
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.
