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- Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood
- The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.
- People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's…
- 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…
- With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story…
- I'm fed up with being bossed around.
- A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
- I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
- I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
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