“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.”

“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.”

“Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.”

“I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.”

“I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.”

“In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.”