“I have painted still lifes throughout my life and see them, that is, still-life, as one of the greatest ‘concepts’ of western art and think they probably define the essence of the European  mind… It is not impossible to see Las Meninas, or for that matter most of Poussin or David, as a still-life. I am a great admirer of some of the great still life painters: Sanchez Cotán and Zurbarán mean a lot to me; Chardin and Picasso, of course”.

Unpublished MS  no. 17a Crozier Archive