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.

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.

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

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.

The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different.