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."

According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.

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

The only bad studio is the unused one.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

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

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.