Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.

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

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.

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.

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

Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.

Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

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

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.

Profiting from companies that are overloading the atmosphere with carbon and changing the atmosphere is wrong.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.

I want one thing I can point to and say, 'that is good, and it's a part of me.'

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.