Anyone can paint, draw, sculpt or write poetry. The question is not how well you explain what you have painted or written but how well your work speaks for itself. 10-03-09

The day visual artists begin to paint beyond their own self absorption a renaissance of world wide magic will occur. 18-02-09

Though it is impossible to impose relevance upon the elements of an artistic expression. A rectangle can no more pretend at emotive and/or communicative powers than an ant will itself anteater. Yet, if that shape and its context are compatible and the expression is imbued with balance, discipline, integrity, wisdom and a willingness to communicate without artifice, the rectangle then easily becomes relevant as a form of immense impact, in and of itself. - 04

A blob of red paint on its own is never more than its physical manifestation. It can never be anything more until it is "contextualized"; fit into a venue of space and time, whereby it gains a foothold on relevance and tangibility. - 01

The essence of much of what is called “modern art” has deteriorated to such a level of irrelevance that all it can say is: we are, we are now and we will be heard! . . And if you don’t understand the undisciplined, unstructured and unconstrained venom I spit at you, in between thumb-sucks, then Fuck you! - 99

There is very little proof that the major portion of that which is perceived as “contemporary art”; (i.e.: art which communicates an expression of our times), is in fact artful, in the traditional sense. . . Most of "art" work in the past fifty years has never been more than manipulation, created not as expression or commentary but rather as a tool to shock, to push away, as it seemingly has no weight by which it can legitimately and humanly reach out and touch. And yet, it does speak volumes as to the context from which it springs. To touch is now perceived as aberrant, perverse, abusive and degrading. Modern contact is relegated to pushing, confronting, slapping, “high-fiving”. These have replaced holding, hugging, touching and stroking.

Avoidance of sensuality and the sharp and quick “grab and run” contact which has replaced lingering communion and sensuality are now the norm. The neuroses of warrior-like compensation have replaced the satisfaction of selfless giving and delicious receiving. Foreplay has become excessive in light of erotica, now perceived as pornographic - pornography erotica. But if this is what the art of our times is saying, then possibly it is legitimate. And by this very fact we should be saddened not by the quality of the art but by the caustic reality of its statement. - 90

The legitimate pursuits of contemporary abstract artists are very often insulted by the dabbles of the untalented who, lacking in creativity, churn out blobs of "influenced by" copies of nothingness - all the while harping at a gullible public to acknowledge their greatness. - 89