Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.
Practice the precept: find without seeking
Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.
A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.
Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.
The crude real will not by itself yield truth.