Let your monkey do it.
Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself.
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!
It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide, and to be able to take rejection well. 2) Do your homework. Check out galleries. Don't just walk in with your work. Be as professional as you can. 3). . . there is a gallery for everybody.
When in doubt, make a red painting.
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.
Get rid of your little darlings.
Ric Flair is out there crying, his nose is running. He's probably drowning from the size of his nose running.
We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit.
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.
Every journey will take us to somewhere even if at the beginning it looks like taking us to nowhere!