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10. Worry less about getting things done. Worry more about things worth doing. Worry less about being a great artist. Worry more about being a good human being who makes art. Worry less about making a mark. Worry more about leaving things better than you found them.

10. "Live in each season as it passes, and resign yourself to the influences of each."

One way to get in touch with your own seasons is to observe the seasons in nature. Draw the same tree every week for a year. Watch the sun rise and set for a week. Observe the moon every night for a few cycles. Try to get a feel for nonmechanical time, and see if it recalibrates you and changes how you feel about your progress.

9. The people who want to control us through fear and misinformation-the corporations, marketers, politicians want us to be plugged into our phones or watching TV, because then they can sell us their vision of the world. If we do not get outside, if we do not take a walk out in the fresh air, we do not see our everyday world for what it really is, and we have no vision of our own with which to combat disinformation.

9. "Waking Is good for physical, spiritual, and mental health." No matter what time you get out of bed, go for a walk. The demons hate it when you get out of bed. Demons hate fresh air.""

7. "Most everybody alive is so obsessed with what's new that they all think about the same things. If you're having trouble finding people to think with, seek out the dead. They have a lot to say and they are excellent listeners."

7. "Art is the highest form of hope". But hope is not about knowing how things will turn out-it is moving forward in the face of uncertainty. It's a way of dealing with uncertainty. To have hope, you must acknowledge that you don't know everything and you don't know what's going to happen. That's the only way to keep going and the only way tokeep making art: to be open to possibility and allow yourself to be changed.

6. "Art is for life, not the other way around."

5. "If you want to change your life, change what you pay attention to. "We give things meaning by paying attention to them," Jessa Crispin writes, "and so moving your attention from one thing to another can absolutely change your future.""

5. "his goal with his art was "to breathe new life into the way we look at the ordinary things around us." This is exactly what an artist does: By paying extra attention to their world, they teach us to pay more attention to ours. The first step toward transforming your life into art is to start paying more attention to it."