Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.

The great square has no corners and the great implement completes nothing.

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

You probably couldn't have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company. They probably would've had had identical demographics for the people who really loved those companies.

I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.

Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

This is a hallmark trait of the left. There is never any effort to elevate anybody. Liberalism is all about tearing down. Liberalism is all about lowering. It is all about destroying 'em.

What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable.

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.