Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
— David Hockney
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.
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
Anything simple always interests me.
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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.
I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
