Best Art Advice Ever - part 2

Following on from the popular Best Art Advice Ever, these are a few offerings from my Developing in Oils class which has just finished. 

The final critique brought out some fabulous work and I'm excited to get cracking with my new classes starting next Monday and Friday. 

Sue Johnson: "Painting is 75% looking and 25% painting." (Val Taylor Ward)

Yvonne Yeats: "Paint what you see, not what you think you see." (Anon)

Marjorie Owen: "Paint not the thing itself but the effect it produces." (Stephane Mallarme)

Richard Treuherz: "Drawing makes you see things clearer and clearer and clearer still."    (David Hockney)

John McCloskey: "You may have decided you want to make great art. You are afraid that your art won't turn out that great so you find yourself not making any art at all and you hate it.
Stop thinking. Stop worrying. Stop doubting. 
Just do something. Do anything. 
Don't worry about trying to do good work. Do bad work.
Just relax and enjoy.
Don't think your work has to conform to anyone else's ideas or standards. 
Just do something.
Do anything."  (Sol Le Witt)

Jill Hands: "It's only a piece of paper"  (Alan Owen)

Don Bates: "Squint."

Brian Thomas: "Don't let figure or still life drawings frighten you. Think of them as blocks or shapes, not arms, legs, teapots or cups." (Cerys Jones)

Nancy Blackburn: You don't always need outlines - you can create a painting just using blocks of tone. Ask yourself "How much can I leave out?"

Margaret Baugh: "A painting isn't finished until the viewer finishes it." 

Judith Swarbrick: "Colour and I are one; I am a painter." (Paul Klee)

Peter Maylor: "Try Acrylics." (David Jaundrell)