I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

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

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

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