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

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

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

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

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

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.

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