Complementaries and contrasts. Everything is about complementaries and contrasts - 07-11-06

A painting student is someone who handles paint in order to discover what he or she can do with it. A skilled painter is someone who has assimilated the required knowledge to repeatedly do things well using the tools at his or her disposal. An artist is someone who because of the level of assimilation of required skills allows his or her paints to do what they do best in order that he or she can repeatedly create not only good but excellent artwork. At times, this person creates extraordinary work which then, having touched or moved another, can be deemed art rather than artwork. - 05-05

Masterpiece Theater - James Adams - The Globe and Mail - Page R1 - Weekend Review - December 04, 2004.

It is sad to think that a rather poorly rendered Van Gogh painting would be worth $15,000,000. - not because it is a brilliant executed painting but rather because it is the source of a conflict between two people - one being Elizabeth Taylor and the other, not. - 04-12-04

Painting is dead? There's still life in landscapes (Cute play on words) -Gary Michael Dault - The Globe and Mail - Page: R8 - Review - Visual Arts - Saturday, December 4th, 2004.

Is this question truly pertinent?. . .  Seven articles on painting in the past week in four different local, regional and national papers. In the news?: Renoir found rolled up in brown meat wrap, a Van Gogh battle, A Picasso non-favourite story, a question of a Michelangelo work's contemporary legitimacy. . .  Yeh. the visual arts are dying. What fails to grab the art intellegentsia's mind is that a painting'a attraction may ebb and flow to and from the netherworlds of affection but the process of painting never dies. Just try and take away crayons from an avid three year old colourist or finger paints from a budding 5 year old Pollock and your liable to get your sorry pseudo-intellectual ears pierced by a blood curdling scream. - 04-12-04

Too often colours, like words, reflect our perception of them and not what they actually say. - 00

Loving or despising a subject has nothing to do with painting. . . unless the goal is to paint a pretty or ugly picture. - 99

It is possible to draw and paint if you are afraid of the world but impossible if you are afraid of yourself. - 97

Don’t paint what you know but what stirs you to know what you know. - 76