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.

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.

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

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

I have a timetable, but no routine.

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

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