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"But art alone reaches across all boundaries, transcends all language, transcends all time, and in some fundamental way makes us all one because it comes from our common source. No, art cannot stop a bullet or feed the hungry. But it can tell us why we must do these things because it lies at the heart of who we are as humans and reminds us what is common among us."

"This is what a work of art can do. It can make you feel like it sees you, like it understands you, like it speaks directly to you and your experience."

"[W]hen you are feeling... unsure of why you have chosen to walk the path of the artist, this work will help you remember because it sees you and knows you and meets you at the place where your spirits touch. And where spirits touch, there is never any forgetting."

This is not a moment to panic or despair. As the French poet Anna de Noailles said, ‘It’s at midnight that one has to believe in the sun.’

"Criticism may be useful in helping you understand what you have done after you have done it, but it is seldom helpful in guiding your hand or heart in the actual act of creation."

"Do whatever you need to do to find that place where you inhabit your art and your art inhabits you."