No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Some things are best mended by a break.

We must believe that we are gifted for something.

Take a canvas. Put a mark on it. Put another mark on it.

You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.

Ultimately, art is trying to see things that other people don't see.

Tenderness is the most modest form of love.

In the beginning especially, we won't realize we're changing.

What counts is not the things that happen, but what we do with them.

We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Be loving, and you will never want for love.