Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself.

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

Tell the viewer something that they need to know.

Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension... additive/subtractive.

Get rid of your little darlings.

When in doubt, make a red painting.

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.

Don't confound static electricity with ecstatic eccentricity. One will leave your hair up, the other will live up in the air!

Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.

Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.

I don't care what the weather is, I will always wear my coats. I am always freezing, so it works out perfectly for me!

I would... learn how to drive... have a nice car... and drive it.

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

Reality is where we are from moment to moment.

The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing!