I'd LIKE to GIVE people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time WITHOUT GETTING bored. I disappear.

Some SAY they SEE POETRY in my PAINTINGS; I see only SCIENCE.

I don't very much ENJOY looking at paintings in general. I KNOW too much about them. I TAKE them APART.

I just like ART. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every TIME I LOOK at them I see something DIFFERENT.

I saw FRANK Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his PAINTINGS. They're so AMAZING.

At ART school, a TEACHER said: 'The best paintings are when you get lost in a piece of work and start PAINTING in a stream of consciousness.' I wanted to do music, not art, so STARTED writing lyrics that WAY. The first song I wrote was called 'Ice Cream and Wafers.' The next was 'Holding Back the Years.'

From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I WORKED any JOB I could get my HANDS on. One of these JOBS was selling fake PAINTINGS door-to-door.

No amounts of STONE and bone COULD yield the kinds of information that the PAINTINGS gave so freely.

My SCOTTISH grandfather, John W. Blyth, was a man ADDICTED to paintings. A manufacturer of linen, he SPENT all his SURPLUS money on pictures.

I taught principally German language and LITERATURE at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be PREPARED to teach anything they ask for. That can be as DIVERSE as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees MANAGE to fly.