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

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

Master water first and then paint.

Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

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

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.

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.