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

Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

Selling is not a static activity.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

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

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.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!