No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deci

