I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

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

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.