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

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

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.

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

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

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.