Tell the viewer something that they need to know.

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.

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

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.

People with victim mentality attracts people in their lives that tease them, abuse them and even bully them instead of building mutually benefitting relationships

In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

I've had two children and no surgery. My body is the result of good genes and a healthy attitude.

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.

I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

Other people have qualities that may be better than your own. Let them express them.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.