Money cannot fill an empty soul.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.

A working artist is a playing artist.

Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn't let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn't make a puffer fish and get discouraged, no, the maker made things - and still does.