There is not ultimate breakthrough; what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul.

There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.

If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

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

Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.