When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that

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

You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

Money cannot fill an empty soul.

The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic is the elemental stuff of art. In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do-spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.