You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.

When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.