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.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

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.

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

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.