Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that aloneness, and in how you respond to it, you will find your passion.

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

If you paint for product, you have to follow the rules that keep you on the track of your expectation. You have to calculate, organize, plan every move. When you paint for process, you listen to the magic of inner voices, you follow the basic human urge to experiment with the new, the unknown, the mysterious, the hidden. Process is adventure; product happens only within the parameters designed.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the joyful, spontaneous expression of one's self. The inner force materializes the feeling and perception without planning or effort. That is what play is.

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.