Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.
Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
Your mood doesn’t really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you’re doing is just plain junk.
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.
All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.
Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.
We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.
The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.
Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body.
If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
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.