I've started painting much more freely, and faster. I think it's working in the theatre that did it. You know what the Glyndebourne scene-painters sa… - David Hockney

Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about, he thought of them as working drawings. I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there. And then when you come to use line, if you know what you're looking at, it's much easier to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution to what you want to depict.

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.