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.

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.

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?

Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper,  twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.

I'm a pollster by trade, so I'm into things that are actually quantifiable.

I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: 'I should do this or that in case I don't make it.' I never had a back-up plan.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.

I am sure I lost out on a few million or more in money but I am happy with the team that I am on and the quarterback that I am with.