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.

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.

I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.

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

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

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.