Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.
Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
All space is space in which to create.
Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.
I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend and advocate.
The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.
Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.
I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.
The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.
Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.
An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.
The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.
Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.
When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.
The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.
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