I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to sh….

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress..

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small..

Each work has to be done as intensely as possible..

I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant referenc….

I get my highs from using my eyes..

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art..

Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing..

The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees... I have wa….

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of re….