On doing what it takes to bring your ideas to life

Any pressure you feel around the work—from the inside or outside—is a signal for self-examination. The artist’s goal is to keep themselves pure and unattached.

We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output. The real work of the artist is a way of being in the world.

Artists who are able to continually create great works throughout their lives often manage to preserve these childlike qualities. Practicing a way of being that allows you to see the world through uncorrupted, innocent eyes can free you to act in concert with the universe’s timetable.

game itself. If you are making a work of art in any area of life, you are not going from a known point A to a known point B. You are inventing point B.