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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

My paintings are rubbish.

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.

I have very talented art directors in my agency who start out telling me, 'Well, this is what the picture is... ' I ask, 'Well, what's the headline?' and they say, 'We haven't done that yet, but it looks this way.' But I'm still writing copy, almost every day.