I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling.
We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength
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.
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.
I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.
The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD).
I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique.