Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson and ….

Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment..

Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without….

We do not see with our eyes, but through them..

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse..

As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none..

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on t….

Abstraction and realism work best together..

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence..

The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than t….

Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience..

There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice..

Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that….

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other..

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done..

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole..

Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself..

Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others..

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process..

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane..

The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as math and science in ….