Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move forward. It is a loop-an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.