It’s Better To Be In The Arena,

The More You Love Your Art/ Calling/ Enterprise, The More Important Its Accomplishment To The Evolution Of Your Soul, The More You Will Fear It And The More Resistance You Will Experience Facing It.

The Critic Hates Most That Which He Would Have Done Himself If He Had Had The Guts.

The Gnostics Believed That Exile Was The Essential Condition Of Man. Do You Agree? I Do. The Artist And The Addict Both Wrestle With This Experience Of Exile. They Share An Acute, Even Excruciating Sensitivity To The State Of Separation And Isolation, And Both Actively Seek A Way To Overcome It, To Transcend It, Or At Least To Make The Pain Go Away. What Is The Pain Of Being Human? It's The Condition Of Being Suspended Between Two Worlds And Being Unable To Fully Enter Into Either.

Every Sun Casts A Shadow, And Genius's Shadow Is Resistance.

Art Is A War - Between Ourselves And The Forces Of Self-sabotage That Would Stop Us From Doing Our Work. The Artist Is A Warrior.