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Inspiration…

"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case."

The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars. A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.

A small act is worth a million thoughts

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."

"Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down."

"A thing is a hole in a thing it is not."

"I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or liberty for a few."

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you’re professional or you’re not.

“You will never get any more out of life than you expect. “

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.