Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce; the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.