Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

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

Master water first and then paint.

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

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.

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.

Seeing nothing one sees everything.