Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

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

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

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

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.