The great square has no corners and the great implement completes nothing.

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.

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.

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?

Life’s product should be made intentionally and consciously

Get fired, no one will call you a quitter.

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

Life is always struggle with eternal forces.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

When you read the Bible, it's as though it reads you.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.