The Artist's Journey Quotes

“For an artist, the minute you become comfortable is the minute you’re no longer searching for your truth.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“For an artist, the big transformation takes place when you finally learn to trust yourself and give yourself permission to play. As you allow yourself to explore, experiment, and not know what’s going to happen when you make a mark on your canvas, you’ll find that this is when surprising and unpredictable images emerge.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“Confronting your fears requires being willing to take risks and let go. If you’re not throwing away some of your work, you’re not evolving as an artist.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“Find joy in your life. It is later than you think.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“Mindfulness practice teaches us that we can evoke the observer, the part of ourself that can step back and see a situation with conscious awareness rather than being locked into harsh negativity and self-doubt.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“words, colors, animals, and themes that come to mind when you think about your life.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“in the most private fibers of our being, that our existence is linked in a meaningful way with the rest of the universe. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“paintings aren’t satisfying, you’ll have the courage to go ahead anyway, through the struggles and frustrations, realizing that it’s not the product that matters, but the process”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“In painting, as in life, though there are problems to be solved there’s also the ineffable, the mystery to be experienced.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“Life is like that. You’re not going to like every painting.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“Something deep inside you knows that winter is coming. This is the part of you that yearns for something more.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood And the true way Was wholly lost – Dante Alighieri”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“As time slips away and you’re distracted with quotidian concerns, will you hear your heart’s siren song beseeching you to express yourself in your art?”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“As you grapple with your own moments of doubt and darkness as an artist, I’ll help you remember that you’re experiencing a necessary part of the life cycle of being a creator, and that the possibility for the transformation of creating your deepest work lives at the edge of your struggle.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“The idea is that the act of moving forward creates the next step. Every creative move you make creates the next possibility—the adjacent possible.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity