I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.