Hugs are great, but - better than drugs? Come on. Let me put it to you this way: I never drove to Harlem at 4 a. m. to get somebody to hug me.
Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.
Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention. . . the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.
Art is about the context in which it is made as much as the object itself; objects take on different meanings in different contexts. If the artist is unaware of the context, it's very unlikely the work will be very good.
I've always felt that I shouldn't make a movie if someone else could do it better.