20 Quotes by Danny Gregory

The most beautiful things have character and experience built into them.

Remember: Writing is drawing.

Life is just a long succession of small epiphanies.

Mistakes are lessons in disguise and accurate reflections of your true state. Maybe you need to slow down. Maybe your initial expectation was actually what was wrong. Maybe you need to draw more often.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it’s teaching you stuff, it’s not being wasted.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.” -Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird.

Time is short. Don’t waste it beating yourself up.

An artist is someone who sees and feels realty very intensely. Creativity doesn’t mean just making things up out of thin air. It means seeing and feeling the world so vividly that you can put together connections and patterns that help to explain reality. It means you see the beauty in the world rather than trying to hide from it.

Birds sing, wolves howl, crickets chirp. But why? Money? Fame? Record contracts? Endorsements? What’s it all for? They do it because they’re alive. They do it because life is about making things.