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

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

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

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art