Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.

The great square has no corners and the great implement completes nothing.

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.

Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

Dreaming is escaping. Daydreaming is a form of self protection. Dissociation is Survival

Faith is verification by the heart confession by the tongue action by the limbs.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

I'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got.

When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.

Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.