The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

I have a timetable, but no routine.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.