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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

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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.

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I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

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

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

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California is always in my mind.

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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

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You must plan to be spontaneous.

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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

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

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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

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I'm fed up with being bossed around.

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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

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In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

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Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

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I prefer living in color.

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Like people, trees are all individuals.

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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.

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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

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The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

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I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

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I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

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