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.

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

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

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

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

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.