While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.

Whatever you do, don't let your system run you.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.

Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.