Art is a path on which we honour our world.

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

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

The only bad studio is the unused one.

Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative patterns. While "ready-mades" do show up from time to time, they are rare. Art need not be what is seen-but what is to be seen. "Nature," said James McNeill Whistler, "is usually wrong."