- Paint as though you were decorating your prison cell.
- Resist the temptation to explain.
- Nothing is corny in painting except a borrowed feeling.
- Fear is the root of bad painting.
- Cinema, advertising, tv, comics, fashion and road signs are all part of the history of painting.
- One color next to another can build a cathedral.
- Only when the studio is silent, will she whisper in your ear.
- Steal shamelessly but only to reveal your psychic truth.
- Paint like you are telling your lover your dream.
- Follow the fun and shun the cult of suffering.
- It is a sin to paint when you are bored.
- The world is both frightening and beautiful, never just one of these.
- Ideas find you. If you were not up to painting them, they would find someone else.
- Friends and family will tell you you are wasting your life, but secretly they envy you.
- One should always paint nature as sentient and conscious.
- If someone asks you to talk about your artistic process or your studio practice, know you are in the presence of a vampire.
- “Old Fashioned” art is the Shadow of the New.
- The need to make images never goes away but tired ways of seeing always do.
