Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I found I have to stay painting.
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
I did painting before I did photography.
I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.
I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.