Cousin, The Days Of Gods And Heroes

The Most Important Thing About Art Is To Work. Nothing Else Matters Except Sitting Down Every Day And Trying. Why Is This Important? Because When We Sit Down Day After Day And Keep Grinding, Something Mysterious Starts To Happen. A Process Is Set In Motion By Which, Inevitably And Infallibly, Heaven Comes To Our Aid. Unseen Forces Enlist In Our Cause; Serendipity Reinforces Our Purpose.

Its [resistance] Aim Is To Shove Us Away, Distract Us From Doing Our Work.

What Finally Convinced Me To Go Ahead Was Simply That I Was So Unhappy Not Going Ahead.

Socrates Demonstrated Long Ago, That The Truly Free Individual Is Free Only To The Extent Of His Own Self-mastery.

You Know, Hitler Wanted To Be An Artist. At Eighteen He Took His Inheritance, Seven Hundred Kronen, And Moved To Vienna To Live And Study... Ever See One Of His Paintings? Neither Have I. Resistance Beat Him. Call It Overstatement But I'll Say It Anyway: It Was Easier For Hitler To Start World War Ii Than It Was For Him To Face A Blank Square Of Canvas.