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.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality, which I think is right. We know that Velázquez embezzled money from the Spanish court and wanted power and so on, but you can't see this in his art.

I have a timetable, but no routine.

I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

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

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.