When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio..

It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts..

Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe..

Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the fo….

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes..

Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's st….

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress a….

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators..

We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it..

I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doin….

The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Chri….

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the ….

Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings..

Art is a path on which we honour our world..

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are..

As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of poten….

Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do..

There is no progress without product..

Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of ….

Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out….

Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness..