No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.

Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality and will lose its 'punch' when topical concerns move on to other interests.

Selling is not a static activity.

What the artist should be asking is, "Am I being honest? Am I being myself? Am I searching for the truth? Am I reporting my experience of life and the world as I see and experience it?