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.

Master water first and then paint.

Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.

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

Seeing nothing one sees everything.

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