I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
You must plan to be spontaneous.
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.