It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

We must learn to let the flow manifest itself where it will.....not where we will it.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.