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Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.

The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.

My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

The surface is all you get of me.

My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.

The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I've created for myself.