Whatever you do, don't let your system run you.

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

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."

Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.

Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

Which is better--feeling good or getting good?

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