Lucas Testro

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to BE an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

messes are the artist’s true friend

- Bird by Bird

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

Say no to bench-setting cynicism.

In order to be an artist, I must:

Show up at the page. Use the page to rest, to dream, to try.

Set small and gentle goals and meet them.

Remember that it is far harder and more painful to be a blocked artist than it is to do the work.

Remember that it is my work to do the work, not judge the work.