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

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.

You're right, super-realism is back in style.

More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.

Which is better--feeling good or getting good?

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."

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