The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.

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

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

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.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.