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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.