The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.
For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.
Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.
It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.
Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.
One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!
Drawing is still the bottom line.
A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.
Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.
When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.
When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.
