“There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.”

“Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.”

“All art is erotic.”

“Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.”

“They make me...they make me think of being stuck somewhere? I don't know, like weighted down, but then these patches...”

“In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.”

“Talent is nothing more than a pursued interest.”

“I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.”

“I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.”

“Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.”

“Sometimes we never see what failure is and often fail to recognize it.”

“Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.”

“I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.”