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.

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!

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.

Sow good seeds for a bountiful harvest of good fruits.

Offer God what you have and trust Him to give you what you need.

Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

The Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now.

One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.

We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.

I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.