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“When you allow your fear or your insecurity or your unrealistic belief in perfection too control you, you are betraying that possibility of life. You are saying that you do not have faith in the artistic child born of the union between your imagination and your talent. You are measuring your art by your own standards of excellence rather than trusting your art and letting it make its way into the hearts of others by its own devices.”
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
“Your dream of being discovered by the public will become the burden of being defined.”
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
“It is not for you to say whether or not your work has life: that is between your work -the child of your creation now living a life of its own- and those who encounter it.”
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
“The moments when you are feeling most lost are simply the moments when your art is seeking new growth.”
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
“All work nourishes the soul of your creative imagination. And all work increases your understanding of your craft. Sometimes a work takes a flower, sometimes it merely enriches the soil. And sometimes the seed of an idea, long abandoned and even forgotten, emerges suddenly in a place where it was least expected. And sometimes the blooms that it produces are the most beautiful of al.”
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
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