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.

If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

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

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

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 downtrodden, but powerful. To be bestial is good. It's physical. Eating, snarling, all activities to do with sensation are positive. To picture a woman as a dog is utterly believable.

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 too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things.

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

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

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