There will be many times when we won’t look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.
Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
We go into parenting, and we discover that we don’t have the answers. We are at a loss.
We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.
We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.
Art is born in attention.
Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic – love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You’re faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.
Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.
Take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors flying open.
It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.
It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.
It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.
Money cannot fill an empty soul.
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.
Accept the fact that you’re an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.
We are not accustomed to thinking that God’s will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.