Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.