All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

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

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.

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

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

Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.

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.