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

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

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

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.

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

I have a timetable, but no routine.