Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body.
Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.
When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.
Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn’t necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further.
Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.
Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.
Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.
Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.
Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.
Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.
If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we ‘should,’ our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.
In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
Serious art is born from serious play.
People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.
As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.
The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.