I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen … that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn… - Lucian Freud

I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.

URGENT SUBTLE CONCISE ROBUST

I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.