Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
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.
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
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.
