Painting And Drawing Has Been Here For

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 Remember In 1982 You Couldn't.

I Think We're In A Very Exciting Time - Visually, I Think We Are. I've Not Got A Crystal Ball. I'm Not Saying I Know What The Future Is At All. In Some Ways I'm Getting Quite Pessimistic About The Future, But In Other Ways I Think It Might Get Better. We Are Moving Into Very Big Changes.

I Was 18 When I First Visited London, I'm Very Provincial Like That, But I Must Confess The Moment I Got To America I Thought: This Is The Place. It Was More Open, With 24-hour Cities And Pubs And Restaurants That Didn't Close.

It Is Difficult To Say Why I Decided I Wanted To Be An Artist. Obviously, I Had Some Facility, More Than Other People, But Sometimes Facility Comes Because One Is More Interested In Looking At Things, Examining Them, More Interested In The Visual World Than Other People Are.

My Only Worry Is The Painting I'm Doing. Nothing Else.