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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

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Stella Vine

I think there is a total equality for me between painting a literary figure or Kate Moss or my Mum or a dog or a bird. To me, they are all absolutely equal.

Bird, Dog, Literary, Painting, Think, Thinking
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I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt very strongly for her - she's a hard-working mum and it seemed as if suddenly the world turned against her. Holy water cannot help you now is painted in very warm pretty colours.

Colours, Hard Work, Kate, Long, Pretty, Water

Even in the most horrendous situations there is always something to smile about.

Horrendous, Situation, Situations, Smile

My working hours are not that conventional. I often get up about two in the morning and do a painting, and then I'll have a bath, and then I often feel very hungry around 4am, so I'll go into Soho and have a meal somewhere like Balans. That's what I love about living here - there's always life around me.

Like, Living, Meal, Meals, Morning, Two

Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision - celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world.

Celebrity, Choose, Paint, People, World

I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason, maybe because of the composition or something in the eye. . . Something touches me and I know I have to paint it, in the way a child knows it wants something.

Children, Eye, Knows, Photographs, Touches, Want Something
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