We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.
The painting is usually finished before you are.
After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.
The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.
All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.