You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.
I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.
When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.
I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.
Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.
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.
The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.
That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
