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.

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

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.

Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?

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

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

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