I Paint People, Not Because Of What

The Only Secret I Can Claim To Have Is Concentration, And That's Something That Can't Be Taught.

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 Use The Gallery As If It Were A Doctor. I Come For Ideas And Help - To Look At Situations Within Painting, Rather Than Paintings.

I Work From The People That Interest Me, And That I Care About, In Rooms That I Live In And Know. I Use The People To Invent My Pictures, And I Can Work More Freely When They Are There.

The Model Should Only Serve The Very Private Function For The Painter Of Providing The Starting Point For His Excitement