When I Look At A

The Paintings That Really Excite Me Have An Erotic Element Or Side To Them Irrespective Of Subject Matter

The Task Of The Artist Is To Make The Human Being Uncomfortable.

Were It Not For This [dissatisfaction], The Perfect Painting Might Be Painted, On The Completion Of Which The Painter Could Retire. It Is This Great Insufficiency That Drives Him On. The Process Of Creation Becomes Necessary To The Painter Perhaps More Than It Is In The Picture. The Process Is In Fact Habit-forming.

It Is The Only Point Of Getting Up Every Morning: To Paint, To Make Something Good, To Make Something Even Better Than Before, Not To Give Up, To Compete, To Be Ambitious.

The Painting Is Always Done Very Much With [the Model's] Co-operation. The Problem With Painting A Nude, Of Course, Is That It Deepens The Transaction. You Can Scrap A Painting Of Someone's Face And It Imperils The Sitter's Self-esteem Less Than Scrapping A Painting Of The Whole Naked Body.