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.

Be of good cheer, miracles do happen.

People are complicated, ” she said. “Didn’t they teach you that in biography school?

... The continuation of her life was more than another day of breathing, but was the gift of another day of engagement with her beloved across the spectrum of all things.

I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.

You can walk and still talk... but still there is a possibility you to die.

Motivation is internal. It has to come from within you. Do not seek it anywhere else.

Ma, I'm just trying to get going on those grandchildren you want.

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

It's a perfect day for letting go.