Practice like good musician; draw every day.

Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create... technique will give way to expression!

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.

The less inhibited you are the better.

There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original.

Always keep your best work.

If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!

All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters.

Never become an artist if you can't learn to draw.

Human willingness to believe precedes their ability to think.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.

Tell more people that you love them.You never know how much they might need it.

The negative has to be done on an A and B [roll] so you don't see the cuts, the splices on the frameline.

One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan

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