Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.

Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much

The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.

Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.

Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

Gratitude is the heart of humility, and humility is the path to peace, love, and understanding.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

Some people think to be strong is to never feel pain. However the strongest people are the ones that have felt pain, understood it, accepted it and learned from it.

A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

A true crisis. Class 3 outbreaks, more than any other, demonstrate the clear threat posed by the living dead. Zombies will number in the thousands, encompassing an area of several hundred miles.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

Those skilled in attack move as from above the nine-fold heavens. Thus they are capable both of protecting themselves and of gaining complete victory.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.