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 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.

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

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