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.

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

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.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

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.