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

I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

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

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 paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.