What other people may view as discipline is actually a playdate that we make with our artist child: “I’ll meet you at 6:00 A.M. and we’ll goof around with that script, painting, sculpture . .

All that angry, whiny, petty stuff that you write down in the morning stands between you and your creativity.

You know rationally that writing or painting shouldn’t be put off because of your silly fear, but because it is a silly fear, you don’t air it and the block stays intact. In this way,

One of the things most worth noting in a creative recovery is our reluctance to take seriously the possibility that the universe just might be cooperating with our new and expanded plans.

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

I have said before that creativity is a spiritual issue. Any progress is made by leaps of faith, some small and some large. At first, we may want faith to take the first dance class, the first step toward learning a new medium. Later, we may want the faith and the funds for further classes, seminars, a larger work space, a year’s sabbatical. Later

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down. The directions are important here.

Your block doesn’t want you to see that. Its whole plan of attack is to make you irrationally afraid of some dire outcome you are too embarrassed to even mention.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. OSCAR WILDE