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“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
“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
“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
“You are not making art, but art is being revealed through you.”
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
“You need to trust that your art, once created, has a value apart from you, just as a child, come into the world, has a value separate from the parents who gave it life. When you give in to self-loathing, insecurity, or stage fright, you are looking at your work from the outside, and the outside is a shapeless darkness that contains all your self-doubt and fears.”
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
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