I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
Being an artist is celebrating life.
Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into reality...as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.
I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.
Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.