I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. 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.

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

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

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

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

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.