Lucas Testro

Say no to bench-setting cynicism.

Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

- Shakti Gawain

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

- Brenda Ueland

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

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.

…one of the most annoying things about God is that he never just touches you with his magic wand, like Glinda The Good, and gives you what you want. Like it would be much skin off his nose. But he might give you the courage or the stamina to write lots and lots of terrible first drafts, and then you’d learn that good second drafts can spring from t

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

“DO” morning pages, don’t “write” them.

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

Leap, and the net will appear.

- The Artists Way