The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.
We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core.
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.
Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.
We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength.
In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.
Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite – getting something down.
At its essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.
As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.