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.

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.

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.

Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.

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

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.

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