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.

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.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

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

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.

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.

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