"Art is a journey, not a destination."

"I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for painting than I am in other people, above all women, but other subjects are more interesting to me."

"There is no self-portrait of myself. I am not interested in my own person as a subject for painting, but rather in others, especially women, and, more than that, in other appearances."

"All art is erotic."

"I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work."