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.

What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.

If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.

As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.