All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.

When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.

Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.

Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simply can't put the book down or wouldn't dare leave the movie, for whatever reason.