I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

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

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.

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

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

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.