Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

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.

Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?

To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.

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.

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

Seeing nothing one sees everything.

Master water first and then paint.

Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.