If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos.

Take a canvas. Put a mark on it. Put another mark on it.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Love is a tenacious adventure.

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

I am all the things I have ever loved.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.