It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

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

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

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