As far as I'm concerned a painting speaks for itself. Paintings are messages from the heart. No explanation is necessary. If you don't understand it, you just don't get it and it's not a message to you. I have education in art (maybe too much or maybe not enough depending on who you ask) I have a BFA degree and a post graduate studies, but I think that the best education in painting is doing it and doing it with passion and enthusiasm and energy every day. I have been painting for 60 years -- longer than most people have been alive. It has...more