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

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.

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.

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

Stress itself is not what’s toxic. It’s our relationship to it that's the hazard.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

This is my inception, I'm writing my dreams.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.