In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.

If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.

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

It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

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 .

Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.