Quotes About Expression

Remember, it takes nurturing to make an artist. Shadow artists did not receive sufficient nurturing. They blame themselves for not acting fearlessly anyhow.

These artists, shadow artists through no fault of their own, hear the distant piping of the dream but are unable to make their way through the cultural maze to find it.

Remember, your artist is a child. Find and protect that child. Learning to let yourself create is like learning to walk.

Typically, the recovering shadow artist will use these early efforts to discourage continued exploration. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE

Aiming for that, I learned to write setting judgment aside and save a polish for later. I called this new, freer writing "laying track." For the first time I gave myself emotional permission to do rough drafts and for those rough drafts to be, well, rough.

We are the instruments more than the author of our work

interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. "How like art

Art ... illuminates us. It sheds light on our lingering darkness. It casts a beam into the heart of our own darkness and says, See?

Para vivir una vida creativa debemos perder el miedo a estar equivocados». JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE

Writing is making choices, and the choices we make can be generic, which will cost us our reader's faith, or specific, which will gain our reader's trust. Detail allows us to communicate precisely what we mean.

Las páginas están concebidas para que nos familiaricemos simplemente con el acto de mover la mano a través del papel y volcar en él todo aquello que te pasa por la cabeza, sea lo que sea. Incluiremos todo, por nimio, tonto, estúpido o raro que pueda parecer.

something, what we mean is that we won't do something unless we can guarantee that we'll do it perfectly. Working artists know the folly of

En consecuencia puede que ni siquiera sepan que son artistas.

Todos aquellos enfados, quejas, miserias que vuelcas al papel por las mañanas son precisamente las cosas que se interponen entre tú y tu creatividad

If you work on your creativity, you will grow spiritually. If you work on your spirituality, you will grow creatively. Creativity and spirituality are so close they are intertwined. We call God 'the Creator' without realizing it is another word for 'artist.' The Creator is the consummate artist. As we explore and express our artistry, we are imitating God. Is it any wonder we begin to find spiritual support?

I learned to just show up to the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping ... I didn't have to be in the mood ... Good, bad? None of my business. I wasn't doing it.

When we chop and pare vegetables, we do so with our thoughts as well. Remember, art is an artist-brain pursuit. This brain is reached through rhythm—through rhyme, not reason. Scraping a carrot, peeling an apple—these actions are quite literally food for thought.

Creativity is the natural order of life, nothing we need to invent. Put simply, creativity is God's gift to us. Our use of it is our gift back to God. We are intended to be creative.

Whole plots can be stitched up while we sew. As artists, we can very literally reap what we sew.

themselves as blocked internally, unable to take the risk of moving into new and more satisfying artistic territory.

When we love our writing, we find time for it. The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel we SHOULD do something else instead ... the Great Creator has gifted us with creativity. Our gift back is our use of it.

François Truffaut contended that critics were themselves blocked directors, as he had been when he was a critic.

took pen to page, praying for guidance.