Drawing Takes Time. A Line

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.

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!'

Tobacco Is America's Greatest Gift To The World!

Until I Saw My Drawings Replayed On The Ipad, I'd Never Seen Myself Draw. Someone Watching Me Would Be Concentrating On The Exact Moment, But I'd Always Be Thinking A Little Bit Ahead. That's Especially So In A Drawing Where You Are Limiting Yourself, A Line Drawing For Example. When You Are Doing Them You Are Very Tense, Because You Have To Reduce Everything To Such Simple Terms.

I Think We're In A Very Exciting Time - Visually, I Think We Are. I've Not Got A Crystal Ball. I'm Not Saying I Know What The Future Is At All. In Some Ways I'm Getting Quite Pessimistic About The Future, But In Other Ways I Think It Might Get Better. We Are Moving Into Very Big Changes.