The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

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

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.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

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