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.

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

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.

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.

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

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.