Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My paintings are rubbish.
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in particular - were actually moved by the work but were disturbed by the feelings it evoked, so they attacked it. Some people find the realm of my work quite uncomfortable.
People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.
Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'
I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.
I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.