Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?

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

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.

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.

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.