Occupation: Teacher Birth: 1947
When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any….
Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters..
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..
We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade..
An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour..
When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awaren….
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..
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….
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 ….
Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-d….
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….
Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state..
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….
Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control..
Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself..
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey..
To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting..
It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change..
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,….
A wild person with a calm mind can make anything..
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..