The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

Serious art is born from serious play.

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it.

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.