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.

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

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

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.

Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.

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.