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

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?

No arrogant man has ever touched the human heart, no despot ever commanded respect.

I'm trying to remain unfamous.

There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.

Hope for the best and work for it.

Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

I won't lie, I want to play in the Champions League and challenge for titles.

Why is it better to love than be loved? It is surer.

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.