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.

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

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

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