there were critics like brian sewell... 0h, brian sewell was a separate case.. i mean, i know he's dead, but he was vicious. and he picked on hockney, kitaj and myself to attack. so if he was reviewing somebody else�*s show, at the end, he would say something like — but it's not as bad as kitaj. something like that. and i... you thought that wasn't fair? he just was a nasty man. well, what about the charge that...? i did once do an interview with him, he was absolutely charming, and we got on very well. and there was a level where you could almost say we were friends. but within the profession of being an art critic, he was a vicious art critic. what about the charge sometimes laid against you that there's a sentimentality in your work? you know, you clearly use images from your youth, from childhood. but you're basically projecting a view of the world that is full of emotion, and some would say too easy emotion. how do you feel about that charge of sentimentality? you've almost fallen into a kind of trap, which i didn't say it, but is there — that sentimentali