Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

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

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

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

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.

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

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.