The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance.

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

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

I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me.

If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.

Whispered words can be devastatingly effective.

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