I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

- Kay Walkingstick

Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself.

- Kay Walkingstick

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

- Kay Walkingstick

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

- Kay Walkingstick

Be of good cheer, miracles do happen.

- Kay Walkingstick

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

- Kay Walkingstick

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.

- Kay Walkingstick

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as…

- Kay Walkingstick

When in doubt, make a red painting.

- Kay Walkingstick