Ever since, I have fought a vague kind of battle for some kind of fairness. - Peter Blake

People say, "Why do you paint?" and I say, to make magic.

Album covers are like any other vehicle, they are a means of illustrating a story.

Brian Sewell is a fool. For some years he seemed to have it in for me and Hockney and [R.B.] Kitaj. Even if he wasn't writing about us he'd always find a way of bringing us in. He'd say, "so and so was a bad artist but not as bad as Hockney, Kitaj or Blake." Things like that.