“Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.”
From Art & fear by D. Bayles and T. Orland

“Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.”
From Art & fear by D. Bayles and T. Orland

Art is all about starting again.
From Art and Fear by David Bayles & Ted Orland


“L’uomo non è libero nella misura in cui non dipende da nulla o da nessuno: è libero nell’esatta misura in cui dipende da ciò che ama, ed è prigioniero nell’esatta misura in cui dipende da ciò che non può amare.
Così il problema della libertà non si pone in termini di indipendenza, ma in termini di amore. La potenza del nostro attaccamento determina la nostra capacità di libertà. Per terribile che sia il suo destino, colui che può amare tutto è sempre perfettamente libero, ed è in questo senso che si è parlato della libertà dei santi. All’estremo opposto, coloro che non amano nulla, hanno un bello spezzare catene e fare rivoluzioni: rimangono sempre prigionieri. Tutt’al più arrivano a cambiare schiavitù, come un malato incurabile che si rigira nel suo letto.”
“Human beings are not free in the measure in which they depend on nothing or no one: they are free in the exact measure in which they depend on what they love, and they are captive in the exact measure in which they depend on what they cannot love.
Therefore, the problem of freedom cannot be tackled in terms of independence but in terms of love. The power of our attachment determines our ability to be free. As terrible as their destiny might be, those who can love everything are perfectly free and that’s how we can talk of the freedom of the saints. On the other hand, those who love nothing, have a good amount of chains to break free from and revolutions to make: they will always remain captive. All they can do is perhaps change their bondage, like a sick person, who can turn over again and again in their bed.”
(translated from the Italian by Small Circle Big Circle)

“My deepest belief is that to live as if we’re dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.”
from Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
“To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw“
– Andrew Loomis

“Because survival is insufficient..”
From Station Eleven

The question is “can you stand erect in your pain, in your loneliness, your fears, and your experience of being rejected?”
from The Inner Voice of Love by Henri Nouwen

“They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison”
From The dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

“To be whole is to be part; true voyage is to return.”
From The dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

“Wasn’t it immoral to do work you didn’t enjoy?”
From The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
