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.

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.

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.

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.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

There's another advantage in being poor. The doctor will cure you faster.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what God says about those who trust in Christ.

Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.