I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

Even today, I've no idea what the truth is, or what I did with it.

Whatever a man values, it is there you will find his resources. That which has no value to him, neither he nor his resources nor him will be present. Where can we find you?

The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake.

I often feel like the director of a cemetery. I have a lot of people under me but nobody listens!

I've got better things to do than read rubbish about myself.

I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him could sail away like two birds.

The government cannot put a chocolate on every one of their pillows and tuck them in at night.

Avoid buying frozen dinners and processed foods, as they are often overloaded with salt.

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.