Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust .