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

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.

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

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.

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

I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.

When the society missteps, the youths are the first to fall sideways.

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.

We call for a new kind of offensive in the Middle East because our current approach has a track record and it's not a good one.

The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

What if...? A question we ask to hurt ourselves.

I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.