I paint what I see, not what you hope that I see.

I paint people not because of what they are like... but how they happen to be.

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 so…

When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth.…