Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

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

Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.

You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: “I am ready to work.” You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing.

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

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.