I don't want to paint people who are just sitting there like models. I want to paint the actual person.

我不想画那些像模特一样坐在那里的人。我想画真实的人。

The only thing I'm interested in is the human animal and what it's like.

我唯一感兴趣的是人类这种动物以及它的样子。

The way you paint is the way you look at things.

你绘画的方式就是你观察事物的方式。

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

我的作品纯粹是自传性的...它关于我自己和我的周围环境。

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

人或物体散发出的光环与他们的肉体一样是他们的一部分。

The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.

主题是自传性的，实际上与希望、记忆、感官和参与有关。

I want the painting to be flesh, to have the same kind of life as the sitter.

我希望画作成为血肉，拥有和模特一样的生命。

The painter must give a completely accurate account of their experience of looking at the subject.

画家必须完全准确地描述他们观察主题的体验。

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

我画人不是因为他们是什么样的人，也不完全不管他们是什么样的人，而是碰巧他们就是那样。

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

你盯着一个物体看得越久，它就变得越抽象，讽刺的是，也越真实。