Whatever you do, don't let your system run you..

Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essent….

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60..

Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings..

There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests ha….

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life..

The only bad studio is the unused one..

According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative..

Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of ….

Inspiration comes from doing..

Know that to begin is often better than to think..

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Pa….

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work..

In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners..

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit..

Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?.

You're right, super-realism is back in style..

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination..

It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes..

Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that wa….

So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?.