Start everyday with a desire, a prayer for Vision.
Open you eyes - all senses - in a book, record your encounters - past, today.
End result : you will become more aware of life and beauty.

Discipline yourself to draw daily - it must be a habit. But draw for yourself - as practice - as a pianist practices. Date your drawings. Draw everything, anything. Use a small book for "road maps" paintings; - they can be but don't have to be enlarged. Write down a few words/thoughts.

Look at Hopper's work, Charles Burchfield, Paul Klee, Delacroix - not at the technique but at the artist's vision. Stand in awe at his vision.

Delacroix said, "Anything can be a painting. The real painting is within oneself."
Read and reread "The Art Spirit" by Robert Henri. Make it a second Bible.

Master your techniques and materials - that takes twenty years - and you will have complete freedom for expression of vision.

Experience all of the Arts - good music, poetry, theater, dance, literature.

Find a mentor: a teacher or master whom you respect, whom you can consult, with whom you can grow. He does not necessarily have to be an artist; he does not have to be alive - i.e. an author, a painter, a philosopher; but he must have Vision!

Become a lover - a passionate lover of the splendor of creation and the beauty of the human life.