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

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.

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

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.

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

I'd really like to find out if the queen burps or trumps.

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.