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Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.
To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things ...
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.
We interpret the world through stories ... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.
If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.
The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right ...
Poetry is good for unleashing images.
I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.
To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In these pictures every woman's a dog woman, not downtrodden, but powerful. To be bestial is good. It's physical. Eating, snarling, all activities to do with sensation are positive. To picture a woman as a dog is utterly believable.
