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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Master water first and then paint.