Quote

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

The surface is all you get of me.

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.

We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.

Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on.

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

As touch-screens have become more popular, they have retrained how we interact with images we see on many surfaces.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.