12 quotes
Your attention is one of the most valuable things you possess, which is why everyone wants to steal it from you.
Keep Going (2019)
What you choose to pay attention to is the stuff your life and work will be made of.
Keep Going (2019)
Yesterday's over, tomorrow may never come, there's just today and what you can do with it.
Keep Going (2019)
When you feel as though you've lost or you're losing your gift, the quickest way to recover is to step outside the marketplace and make gifts.
Keep Going (2019)
The only thing we can really control is what we spend our days on. What we work on and how hard we work on it.
Keep Going (2019)
It's always a mistake to equate productivity and creativity. They are not the same. In fact, they're frequently at odds with each other: You're often most creative when you're the least productive.
Keep Going (2019)
I don't want to know how a thirty-year-old became rich and famous; I want to hear how an eighty-year-old spent her life in obscurity, kept making art, and lived a happy life.
Keep Going (2019)
One of the easiest ways to hate something you love is to turn it into your job: taking the thing that keeps you alive spiritually and turning it into the thing that keeps you alive literally.
Keep Going (2019)
Art is not only made from things that "spark joy." Art is also made out of what is ugly or repulsive to us. Part of the artist's job is to help tidy up the place, to make order out of chaos, to turn trash into treasure, to show us beauty where we can't see it.
Keep Going (2019)
Let go of the thing that you're trying to be (the noun), and focus on the actual work you need to be doing (the verb). Doing the verb will take you someplace further and far more interesting.
Keep Going (2019)
Creativity is about connection — you must be connected to others in order to be inspired and share your own work — but it is also about disconnection. You must retreat from the world long enough to think, practice your art, and bring forth something worth sharing with others.
Keep Going (2019)
Art is supposed to make our lives better. This is as true for the making of the art as it is for the art itself. If making your art is ruining anyone's life, including your own, it is not worth making.
Keep Going (2019)