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

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

Deceptions and lies reign in a country where focus is on messages of miracles and wonders

...whatever you do, you’ll never kill my love. I love you! It’s only now that I realize I can’t imagine my life without you

Isolation allows me to think more clearly, and I think out loud sometimes.After all, I wouldn't want to accuse anyone of plagiarism.

If radioactive waste were dissolved as water soluble compounds and then widely dispersed in the oceans, no health or other environmental risks would ever occur.

Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.

I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

It's important for me to get back to my fans here and around the world. I feel very, very blessed that so many people have continued to write me and to pour out their love for me and my work.

I thought of a great way to celebrate my Finnish heritage at home. I'm going to look into opening a chain of strip clubs, and I'll call them Lapland!!!

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?