Lucas Testro

messes are the artist’s true friend

- Bird by Bird

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to BE an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

Affirmations are a powerful antidote for self-hate, which commonly appears under the mask of self-doubt.

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

- Brenda Ueland

If god doesn’t work for you, “blend in the influence of someone who is ever so slightly more amused by you, someone less anal. David Byrne is good, for instance. Gracie Allen is good. Mr Rogers will work.”

- Bird by Bird

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross