When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awaren….

Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state..

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting..

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour..

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey..

We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade..

There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them..

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working..

It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change..

One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be ….

Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself..

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you c….

Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?.

A wild person with a calm mind can make anything..

When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not ju….

You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you ca….

If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours..

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith,….

Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we f….

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-d….

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control..