"All my patience has gone into my work, leaving non for my life."
"My preferred subject matter are humans. I'm really interested in them as animals, and part of liking to work from them naked is partly for that reason."
"My work is autobiographical. It is an attempt at a record."
"I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of the scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures."
"A lot of my sitters are girls who have some sort of hole in their lives that is filled by posing for an artist."
"I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art… I ignored the fact that, after all, art derives from art."
"The promise of happiness is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work… For it is then that the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting… Until then he had almost dared to hope that the picture might spring to life."
