Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.
I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.
My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant.
I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.
Personally, I am obsessed with my mom, and I would do literally anything for her.
My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.
My mom is really skinny, too. I got it from her. I've never done yoga before.
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
