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

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

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

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.

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.

I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

As long as, Woman presents herself weak, She is master of everything.

Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.

Perfect joy lies in selflessly striving for the best outcome, and then humbly accepting whatever God gives.

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

This life is a stellar opportunity to realize what you are, to bring what you first are into manifestation.

Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.

A nation of intellectuals, a nation of thugs Jesus is hate, a nation of Satan is love!