An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution

Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.

A non-GMO Mom is an avid researcher, a conscientious protector, and the most effective teacher of natural health.

Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

To show that you truly care, you listen.

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

Come on with the rain / I’ve a smile on my face.

Most of these love triangles are wrecktangles.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.