Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected.

Paradoxically, the more you are yourself, the more universal your message. As you develop and individuate more deeply, you break through into deeper layers of the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness.

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

Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine.

Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already passed, or we can remain accessible to-even surrender to-the creative process, without insisting that we know in advance the ultimate outcome for us, our institutions, or our planet. To accept this challenge is to cherish freedom, to embrace life, and to find meaning.

An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution

We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.