Color is only beautiful when it means something.
To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.
Educate yourself. Don't let me educate you
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.
Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.