Edvard Munch

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.