In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long. You may think you’ve lost your passion, or that you can’t identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. None of these is true.

The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.