Master water first and then paint.

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.

The great square has no corners and the great implement completes nothing.

To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.