Lucas Testro

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation, while writing needs to breathe and move.

- Bird By Bird

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.

Say no to bench-setting cynicism.

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

Leap, and the net will appear.

- The Artists Way

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

- Brenda Ueland

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven’t time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

- Georgia O’Keefe