How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.

I hope you're golfing today.

Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

People do not read, by and large. They watch television.

the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance

Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic.

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.