Simone Lopes

“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”
― Julia Cameron

“Nonetheless, I (like many others) felt a wrongness in the world, a wrongness that seeped through the cracks of my privileged, insulated childhood. I never fully accepted what I had been offered as normal. Life, I knew, was supposed to be more joyful than this, more real, more meaningful, and the world was supposed to be more beautiful. We were not supposed to hate Mondays and live for the weekends and holidays. We were not supposed to have to raise our hands to be allowed to pee. We were not supposed to be kept indoors on a beautiful day, day after day.”
― Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“Serious art is born from serious play.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity