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.

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

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.

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

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

Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.

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