Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much

The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.

Look at your work and it tells you how it is when you hold back or when you embrace. When you are lazy, your art is lazy; when you hold back, it holds back; when you hesitate, it stands there staring, hands in its pockets. But when you commit, it comes on like blazes.

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.

Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.