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

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

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

Abstraction and realism work best together..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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 ….

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

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….

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

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

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

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 ….

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….

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour..

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'.

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see..