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All space is space in which to create.
Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.
An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.
Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.
We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.
Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.
Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.
Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.
A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.
Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.
While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.
An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?
Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?
To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.
Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.
You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.
The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.
The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.
When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.
An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.
Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.