All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.

The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.

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

The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.

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.