Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

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

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.

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

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 you've erected yourself.

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.

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 can keep updating your plan.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

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.

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 more often.

I don't like it when it stings, ' he said. 'Nobody does.

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

I sit with the intention to write a record.

Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.

At the end of every road you meet yourself.

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.