Of course, to change your mind is to do some real thinking. Thinking requires an environment in which you can try out all sorts of ideas and not be judged for them. To change your mind, you need a good place to have some bad ideas.

Now, we all have our own little Art Monsters inside us. We’re all complicated. We all have personal shortcomings. We’re all a little creepy, to a certain degree. If we didn’t believe that we could be a little better in our art than we are in our lives, then what, really, would be the point of art?

The world doesn’t necessarily need more great artists. It needs more decent human beings.

“The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality.”

WHEN IN DOUBT, TIDY UP.

Try your best to seek out the like-hearted people with whom you feel this connection.

Art and the artist both suffer most when the artist gets too heavy, too focused on results.

This is the place of creative incubation.

“I’ll go on until I fall over.”