Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains. Maybe they can re-write a proposal for you.

Develop a mailing list... anyone who comes through your studio or meets you at art shows or anywhere. It's the power of permission-based marketing. Email your latest work to the list, every month.

A personal website is vital, but it needs to change and evolve.

Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.

Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

Create quality art.... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else?

Nothing quite delivers the full experience of being out there like floating around soaking up the warmth of the early morning rays with a brush in hand.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

AdiosHer pretty picturelying on theground was likethe topplingof somefascistregimeAnd burningthe photograph, was thecelebration

The feelings is both the biggest poison and the greatest remedy. The wisdom and good sense define the best use.

Yes there is a Nirvanah it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.