State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

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.

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.

Be of good cheer, miracles do happen.

At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

If you live in your senses, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds, then romance is something you’ll never need a greeting card to make you remember.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

Cracker Jacks don't count as junk food because they're corn and peanuts, which we know to be high in nutrition. And they have a prize inside.

I am the last Englishman to rule in India.

The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

"Good" people are those who don't hold in the thoughts, but find proper outlets like writing, painting, music, etc.

I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.

I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.