Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)

Campbell says you must have a room or a certain hour. A bliss station can be not just a where, but also a when. Not just a sacred space, but also a sacred time.

Great artists help people look at their lives with fresh eyes and a sense of possibility.

You must play a little hide-and-seek in order to produce something worth being found.

In her ongoing project Seat Assignment, artist Nina Katchadourian uses long, disconnected plane rides to make art using only her camera phone,

Rather than restricting your freedom, a routine gives you freedom by protecting you from the ups and downs of life and helping you take advantage of your limited time, energy, and talent. A routine establishes good habits that can lead to your best work.

If you want to change your life, change what you pay attention to.

“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes of all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning, we cannot begin to see. Unless we see, we cannot think.” —Thomas Merton

I keep a daily diary for many reasons, but the main one is that it helps me pay attention to my life. By sitting down every morning and writing about my life, I pay attention to it, and over time, I have a record of what I’ve paid attention to.

“Suckcess” is what poet Jean Cocteau was referring to when he said, “There is a kind of success worse than failure.”