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

Be of good cheer, miracles do happen.

Love is the mighty force of mind, soul and body.

it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger

Pushing fifty is exercise enough.

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

No one has developed active tuberculosis.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

I miss my mattress when I am gone; It's one thing I've made an impression on.

We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.