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- Nov 07, 2020
There are enough no smoking places now.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
- Believe
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
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I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
- Difficult
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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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When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
- Cubism
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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
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I'm a natural sceptic.
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Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
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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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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt very English.
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