Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.