What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

I have a timetable, but no routine.