The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

I want paint to work as flesh.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

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 would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.