Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.
The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.