It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

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.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

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.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

We grow small trying to be great.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

There are enough no smoking places now.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

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