West Yorkshire Is Quite Dramatic And Beautiful,

Modernism In A Way, Early Modernism, For Instance, In Pictures, Was Turning Against Perspective And Europe. And All Early Modernism Is Actually From Out Of Europe, When You Think Of Cubism Is African, Is Looking At Africa, Matisse Is Looking At The Arabesque, Oceania. Europe Was The Optical Projection That Had Become Photography, That Had Become Film, That Became Television And It Conquered The World.

It's All One To Me: Opera, Painting, Drawing, Faxes.

You Can't Believe Any Picture Nowadays, If It's Digital. You Can't Really Believe. If You See Me Shaking Hands With Mr. [barack] Obama, It Doesn't Mean I Ever Met Him, Does It?

I Have Always Believed That Art Should Be A Deep Pleasure...ther E Is Always, Everywhere, An Enormous Amount Of Suffering. But I Believe My Duty As An Artist Is To Overcome And Alleviate The Sterility Of Despair...new Ways Of Seeing Mean New Ways Of Feeling... I Do Believe That Painting Can Change The World.

Future Art That Is Based On Appearances Won't Look Like The Art That's Gone Before. Even Revivals Of A Period Are Not The Same.