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.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

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.

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

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

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

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