Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace
Artists don't need criticism, artists need love
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
Painting does what we cannot doโit brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birdsโthe birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.