Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.