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

There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

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

Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.