The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.

The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his life to it of his own free will.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

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