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For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don't do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.

It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.