Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure….

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking peopl….

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work..

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….

Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people..

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional..

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty..

Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and o….

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

Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal..

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed..

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity..

My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain….

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought..

God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment..

Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation..

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

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….

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

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….

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