Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

When you have a brilliant idea, nobody is going to ask to see your diploma.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.