The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality, which I think is right. We know that Velázquez embezzled money from the Spanish court and wanted power and so on, but you can't see this in his art.

I have a timetable, but no routine.

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

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.

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

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

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