Ya wanna be an artist? Make art!

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.

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.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

Pollution is an unused resource.

The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.

Reality is only just a word.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

What will I become? Because I won't be me any longer. That will be a relief. I dont want to be the helpless person I've always been.

Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.

Eun Gi. Let's run away. I will go wherever you want. To where no one can find. Run away with me. Seo Eun Gi.

I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.