Lucas Testro

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

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

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

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

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The refusal to acknowledge our creativity had its payoffs. We could wonder and worry about our arrogance instead of being humble enough to ask help to move through our fear. We could fantasize about art instead of doing the work. We could proceed to righteously ignore our creativity and never have to take the risks of fulfilling it.

“Your day’s work might turn out to have been a mess. So what? Vonnegut said, ‘When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth’. So go ahead and make big scrawls and mistakes. Use up lots of paper. Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow

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