Whispered words can be devastatingly effective.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

The Western Idea of practice is to acquire a skill. It is very much related to your work ethic, which enjoins us to endure struggle or boredom now in return for future rewards. The Eastern idea of practice, on the other hand, is to create the person, or rather to actualize or reveal the complete person who is already there.... Not only is practice necessary to art, it is art.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.

To create, we need both technique and freedom of technique