The Artist's Way

the isolation of the beleaguered artist’s brain.
As mental-health experts are quick to point out, in order
to move through loss and beyond it, we must acknowledge
it and share it. Because artistic losses are seldom openly
acknowledged or mourned, they become artistic scar tissue
that blocks artistic growth. Deemed too painful, too silly, too
humiliating to share and so to heal, they become, instead,
secret losses.
If artistic creations are our brainchildren, artistic losses are
our miscarriages. Women often suffer terribly, and privately,
from losing a child who doesn’t come to term. And as artists
we suffer terrible losses when the book doesn’t sell, the film
doesn’t get picked up, the juried show doesn’t take our
paintings, the best pot shatters, the poems are not accepted,
the ankle injury sidelines us for an entire dance season.

I   shall   become  a   master  in  this    art only    after   a   great

deal    of  practice.

ERICH   FROMM

Taking  a   new step,   uttering    a   new word    is  what    people

fear    most.

FYODOR  DOSTOYEVSKI

We  must    remember    that    our artist  is  a   child   and that    what