Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.