By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

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

The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.

Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.