Seeing nothing one sees everything.

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.

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

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

Seeing nothing one sees everything.

Master water first and then paint.

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.