I Would Wish My Portraits

I Paint People, Not Because Of What They Are Like, Not Exactly In Spite Of What They Are Like, But How They Happen To Be.

My Work Is Purely Autobiographical... It Is About Myself And My Surroundings.

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.

I Would Wish My Portraits To Be Of The People, Not Like Them. Not Having A Look Of The Sitter, Being Them.

When I Look At A Body It Gives Me Choice Of What To Put In A Painting, What Will Suit Me And What Won't