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

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

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

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

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

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.