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

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

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.

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

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

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.