When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual..

Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within..

Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here..

When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing..

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do..

The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps ca….

A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability..

Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for..

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future..

I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not going to be the masterpiece I thought it ….

I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence..

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow..

By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted..

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their pain….

People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery..

A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canv….

Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or indeed everything that's ever b….

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description..

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and m….

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion..

For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity..