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"It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in…

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

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…

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…

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.