Carey Usher

“All art is a work in progress. It’s helpful to see the piece we’re working on as an experiment. One in which we can’t predict the outcome. Whatever the result, we will receive useful information that will benefit the next experiment. If you start from the position that there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and creativity is just free play with no rules, it’s easier to submerge yourself joyfully in the process of making things. We’re not playing to win, we’re playing to play. And ultimately, playing is fun. Perfectionism gets in the way of fun. A more skillful goal might be to find comfort in the process. To make and put out successive works with ease.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“Just like the moon, your greatest magic will come in times of darkness when you have no choice but to trust your own power.’ Jill Wintersteen”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“There is no way of wasting time. Because what is time for, except to be wasted?”
― Alan W. Watts, Out of Your Mind

“All that matters is that you are making something you love, to the best of your ability, here and now.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being