I Don't Value Prizes Of

All Art Is Contemporary, If It's Alive, And If It's Not Alive, What's The Point Of It?

Loads Of People, Particularly Artists, Hate Pretty Pictures. Now I've Never Met Anyone Who Didn't Like A Pretty Face.

No Theoretician, No Writer On Art, However Interesting He Or She Might Be, Could Be As Interesting As Picasso. A Good Writer On Art May Give You An Insight To Picasso, But, After All, Picasso Was There First.

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.

If You See The World As Beautiful, Thrilling And Mysterious, As I Think I Do, Then You Feel Quite Alive.