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. 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.

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

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

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

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