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.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

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

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.

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