FB ”….when you were sitting for a portrait I was trying to do for you, I was always looking at photographs of wild animals.”

DS ”Yes, I never knew quite how to take that.”

FB ”Well, one image can be deeply suggestive in relation to another.”

”….isn’t that one wants a thing to be as factual as possible and at the same time as deeply suggestive or deeply unlocking of areas of sensation other than simple illustration of the object that you set out to do? Isn’t that what art is about?”

DS ”Are you saying that painting is almost a way of bringing somebody back, that the process of painting is almost like the process of recalling?”

FB ”I am saying it.”

”I’m always surprised when I wake up in the morning.”