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“You are not making art, but art is being revealed through you.”
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
“You need to trust that your art, once created, has a value apart from you, just as a child, come into the world, has a value separate from the parents who gave it life. When you give in to self-loathing, insecurity, or stage fright, you are looking at your work from the outside, and the outside is a shapeless darkness that contains all your self-doubt and fears.”
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
“The moments when you are feeling most lost are simply the moments when your art is seeking new growth.”
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
“Your dream of being discovered by the public will become the burden of being defined.”
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
“When you allow your fear or your insecurity or your unrealistic belief in perfection too control you, you are betraying that possibility of life. You are saying that you do not have faith in the artistic child born of the union between your imagination and your talent. You are measuring your art by your own standards of excellence rather than trusting your art and letting it make its way into the hearts of others by its own devices.”
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
― Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
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