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A lot of people ... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.
I never think that anything I do is courageous.
In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.
I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.
Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.
I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.
I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.
