Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become ….

Use lots of paint and don't worry, they will make more..

What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than mer….

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it..

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like….

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart..

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things..

Paint like a pig eats..

How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before we ruin it? We have all had that e….

Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time..

In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of some….

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power..

Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that m….

I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings..

The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the spec….

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise..

Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were….

There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggeste….

As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil ….

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses ..

Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules ….