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

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.

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.

Be of good cheer, miracles do happen.

Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?

Despite the violence and war, this world is the most peaceful place with the most beautiful nature in the universe.

But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating.

Ten percent tithes is unbiblical

I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.

I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?"

The way I view the works, they're more like feelings than anything else.

Service to man is service to god

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?