There Is No Self-portrait Of Me.

I Have Never Painted A Self-portrait. I Am Less Interested In Myself As A Subject For A Painting Than I Am In Other People, Above All Women... There Is Nothing Special About Me. I Am A Painter Who Paints Day After Day From Morning To Night... Who Ever Wants To Know Something About Me... Ought To Look Carefully At My Pictures.

I Have The Gift Of Neither The Spoken Nor The Written Word, Especially If I Have To Say Something About Myself Or My Work. Whoever Wants To Know Something About Me -as An Artist, The Only Notable Thing- Ought To Look Carefully At My Pictures And Try And See In Them What I Am And What I Want To Do.

On My First Days Here I Did Not Start Work Immediately But, As Planned, I Took It Easy For A Few Days - Flicked Through Books, Studied Japanese Art A Little.

Sometimes I Miss Out The Morning's Painting Session And Instead Study My Japanese Books In The Open.

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.