“The rhythm of the girl as she dances and we see in it the eternal rhythm of all things.”

Ainslie Meares

The only “work” with my painting is cleaning the brushes afterwards. I still need to also do that meditatively.

Ainslie Meares, the great Australian psychiatrist and humanitarian, wrote of the yogi saint 134 years old who spent sixteen hours a day in meditation that he had an “aura of serenity.” As did Ainslie.

“When the Chinese artist paints, what matters is the concentration of thought and the prompt and vigorous response of the hand to the directing will.”

Georges Duthuit

As there's no not-God,
everything is an instance of God
– and it is the artist's role
to make this Truth obvious.

Wang Wei, Li Po and Tu Fu were the great poets of the Tang dynasty. And Wang Wei is credited with being the originator of what was to become the Sung dynasty school of literati painting.

The power inherent in one dot: its yang so strong that it can balance the yin of a large canvas – if it is at just the right spot.

Many of my paintings have a dot; usually just one, sometimes many. I am always astounded by the power of a dot. Just one alone on a canvas seems to have more power than many lines. To me, my most satisfying paintings consist of but one dot and one curved line. Both placed as Guided.

The painter’s eye, in meditation free,
does fly from earth to Heaven, from Heaven to earth...

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.”

Andre Gide