Basic Principles:1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life -- including ourselves.3. W...
Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than...
We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my...
Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.
I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of...
Often God shuts a door in our face, And then subsequently opens the door through which we need to go. CATHERINE MARSHALL
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.
I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.
Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely ours alone. Instead, we are enco...
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. SUSAN JEFFERS
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure.
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it...
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