The Artist's Way at Work Quotes

“It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both. —T. S. ELIOT”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived, —THOMAS MERTON”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“When people are blocked creatively, they avoid fun. Why? Because fun leads straight to creativity. Fun leads to healthy anarchy, to festive rebellion, to sensing our own strength and power. Feeling our own power is often frightening.”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“Anger is uncomfortable; it is useful; it announces our boundaries and can goad us in the direction of our dreams; if unchanneled, it is a highly destructive force; if channeled for change, it is a booster rocket.”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“Sometimes knowledge impedes change: We know more but do less.”
― mark bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —LEO TOLSTOY”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“Together, teaching and learning are the soul of creativity. Our creative vitality arises from our generosity as teachers coupled with our humility as learners. The two cannot be separated; they are the very heartbeat of the creative self.”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“It has been said that you cannot give what you do not have, but it is also true that you cannot keep what you have without giving it away.”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads. our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. —MARCEL PROUST”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“We shape clay into a pot, but it is emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. -TAO TE CHING”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“I think luxury is having a sense of personal continuity, of personal passion, in the midst of a busy public life," Julia postulates.”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“Creativity is tidal. We must both deepen and become more shallow in order to deepen again.”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“Do all the good you can / By all the means you can / In all the ways you can / In all the places you can / At all the times you can / To all the people you can / As long as ever you can. —JOHN WESLEY”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“Fritz Perls says that "the more deeply grounded we are in our actual reality, the more possibility exists for actual change." In other words, acceptance of the present must precede action.”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“To be able to create, we must be willing to learn how to quiet our minds, feel our emotions, and stay in the vacuum so the ideas can well up from our deepest place of knowing.”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon

“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. —JEAN-PAUL SARTRE”
― Mark Bryan, Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon