the peculiar. To allow a sense of play in your relationship to
accepted standards. To ask the question “Why?” To be an
artist is to risk admitting that much of what is money,
property, and prestige strikes you as just a little silly.
What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires
their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with
the idea that what has already been said is still not
enough.
EUGTNE DELACROIXTo be an artist is to acknowledge the astonishing. It is to
allow the wrong piece in a room if we like it. It is to hang on
to a weird coat that makes us happy. It is to not keep trying
to be something that we aren’t.
If you are happier writing than not writing, painting than
not painting, singing than not singing, acting than not
acting, directing than not directing, for God’s sake (and I
mean that literally) let yourself do it.
To kill your dreams because they are irresponsible is to be
irresponsible to yourself Credibility lies with you and God—
not with a vote of your friends and acquaintances.
The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift
from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this
bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.