I Haven't Stopped Painting Or

And Then I Went Round The Corner And There's A Van Gogh Portrait, And You Just Think, Well, This Is Another Level. A Higher Level, Actually. I Love The Sargent, But It's Not The Level Of Van Gogh.

With Chemical Film, It Was Possible To Alter Photographs, But You Had To Be An Expert. That's Not True Any More. The La Times Fired A Photographer At The Beginning Of The Iraq War For Editing Two Shots Together. Photography Is Crumbling. Certainly It Is For The Newspapers A Bit Now, Isn't It? There Will Be Painting Again, Absolutely!

Before He Did All Those Lovely Line Drawings, Matisse Would Make Really Detailed Charcoal Drawings And Tear Them Up. He Wouldn't Leave Them About... I Understand What He Was Doing: Discovering What's There... To Make The Line Meaningful, To Find A Linear Solution.

The Problem Is, Photographic Dyes And Printing Inks Aren't As Good As Paint, Actually.

Always Live In The Ugliest House On The Street - Then You Don't Have To Look At It.