I Don't Value Prizes Of Any Sort.

I'm Fed Up With Being Bossed Around.

The Lens Is A Tyranny.

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.

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.

Drawing Is Rather Like Playing Chess: Your Mind Races Ahead Of The Moves That You Eventually Make.