I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.

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.

Streams of conscious ‘knowing’ flows like the Nile when one is open from within.

Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.