I have a timetable, but no routine.

Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.

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

The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle.

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.