Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing.

As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do know what to do about it-pray about it, talk about it, feel the fear, and do it anyway. Artistic fear, on the other hand, sounds somehow nastier and more virulent, like it just might not yield to ordinary solutions-and yet it does, the moment we become humble enough to try ordinary solutions.

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

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.