My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I want paint to work as flesh.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.