Occupation: Author Birth: September 27, 1942
To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason..
If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge ….
We have within us enormous reserves of trapped potential. Our natural urges have been so constrained by the accommodations of living that we each hav….
You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what i….
What I want people to realize is that there is enough inside them, that everything that they really need in order to feel a sense of aliveness and cr….
The unfolding of the unexpected becomes the energy that drives you. You discover how thirsty you are for exploration without analysis. You become str….
It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement..
There is this mysterious energy that wants us to keep growing..
When a seed sprouts, it's a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a strong or v….
To discover that you can paint without special talent is a great revelation. An endless stream runs through you, enough to paint for lifetimes. Talen….
Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it..
To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the joyful, spontaneous expression ….
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed..
Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that alonene….
Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow..
Intuition comes from the whole person, from a place that includes the conscious and the unconscious. The total result of all feelings and perceptions….
Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself..
When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche..
When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will i….
Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation..
If you paint for product, you have to follow the rules that keep you on the track of your expectation. You have to calculate, organize, plan every mo….