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

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

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."

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

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

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.