Sgt Pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist. - Peter Blake

Most artists go potty as they get older: dafter and madder as they get more celibate. So I am consciously going to do that.

I say to people I'm in my late period. Obviously, as you get older you're in your late period anyway, but to decide you are becomes a concept. It's related to the concept of my retirement, which was about the fact that I'd shown at the greatest gallery in the world and I'd never top that... So, I retired from the jealousy of other artists, and ambition. I could alternatively have become a Buddhist or something — it is a kind of beatific state.

He opened the door that so many of us went through, the door of possibility, by saying anything an artist makes is art.