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

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

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 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.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

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