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As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

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

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

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.

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

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

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

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