An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.