I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.

The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.

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

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.

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

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

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.