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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

Artists ... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

Our currency is what we are able to make.

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.

Sometimes ... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life ... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.

I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.

Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.

It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.

Silent guns have virtue.

No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.

In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

There is no progress without product.

Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.

When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.

Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.

While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.

I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.

Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.

Drawing is still the bottom line.

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless,

A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.

Whatever you do, don't let your system run you.

Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.

Know that to begin is often better than to think.

We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability ...

Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

Inspiration comes from doing.

More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.

Fact is, perfection is boring.

Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things
rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.

Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.

Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.

People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery.

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

We artists allow others to see through our windows.

We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

You're right, super-realism is back in style.

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.

Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

Quality is always in style.

Flowers are an education in a vase.

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.

Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.

This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.

Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.