Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.

All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

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.

A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

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.

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