With love I draw what I hate..

If art could be absolutely verified as to importance in, say, the way gold can be judged for purity and weight, then it would of course be finished a….

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose..

Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended..

It took me over a couple of months to find the right piece of transparent paper for a section near the centre, on the right side of the Garden of Neb….

It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a bordello... It's ironic that t….

Any artist who doesn't think he's the best should quit..

I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it..

I am interested in doing something that cannot be explained..

Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting to gr….

I make up a set of rules and play within those rules until I win..