The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

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

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

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.