To truly see is to find hope.
You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust.
Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.
I’ve found that limitations can be an artist’s best friend sometimes.
Creativity is simply the human brain forming new connections between ideas, and we all are engaged in this process every day. The common idea that there are some people who are creative and some who are not is a myth. On some level, we are all artists. We are all creators.
The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.
Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn’t lead one towards love ought to be forsaken.
When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly.
Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.
Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It’s also the root of a lot of bad art.
Not just in Christian music but also in a lot of Christian culture there is a lot of pretending that everyone is perfect, nobody is really going through much.
Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.
We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every interaction, movement, and decision is creativity at work. We are all artists. We all order creation around us into the world that we want to make.