I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

- Jenny Saville

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side

- Jenny Saville

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. …

- Jenny Saville

The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who get to the flesh. Visceral artists…

- Jenny Saville

Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.

- Jenny Saville

There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong wi…

- Jenny Saville

I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of pe…

- Jenny Saville

If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.

- Jenny Saville