Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?