Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

Seeing nothing one sees everything.

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.

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.

Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.