All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

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.

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

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

Easel painting means small painting.

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

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

I don't value prizes of any sort.

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

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

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

I live wherever I happen to be.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

I prefer living in color.

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

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.