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.

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.

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 am a storyteller, spiraling fantasy and reality into mystical tales. That eerie space between fact and fiction, where only the brightest light can scare the shadows—you will find me there.

And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest musicleaving tears on the glass, which is what music does to memost of the timebut silence too. and rain.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.

The Buddha always emphased the important of good friends.