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

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

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

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

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

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.