oceans floor’s Reviews > Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear > Status Update

“I am the court lobster”

“What would you do even if you knew that you might very well fail?”

“My soul, when I tend to i, is a far more expansive and fascinating source of guidance than my ego will ever be, because my soul desires only one thing: wonder”

“Your creative work is not your baby; if anything, you are its baby”

“If the art legitimates cruelty, I think the art is not worth having” Adam Phillips

if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something (myself, a relationship, or my own peace of mind)

There is no love which does not become help - Paul Tillich

[about creative motive being helping others] don’t make it your sole creative motive, because we will feel the weight of your heavy intention, and it will put a strain upon our souls

on the next page “if your subject matter is darker and more serious, I would prefer that you made your art in order to save yourself”