No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.

It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.

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.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.

In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

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