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

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

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

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

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.

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

Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.