“Art is born in attention.”

“Serious art is born from serious play.”

“Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”

“The reward for attention is always healing.”

“The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.”

“Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.”

“Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.”