All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.