What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
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.
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
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.