Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom..

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..

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery..

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them..

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure..

I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhyme….

Poetry is good for unleashing images..

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 to….

I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and snatch at thi….

In collage you're doing it in stages so you're not actually doing it right there. You first of all draw it on the paper, then you cut it up, then you….

Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each other and sp….

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 downtrod….

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse..

The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right..