Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

Caterina Fake (via @hooey)

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

I’ve always believed that the poem inside is perfect; I have a very clumsy retrieval process for getting it out.

Carolyn Kizer via @ParisReview

To feel inspired essentially means to realize I Can because You Do.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles DuBois, Belgian author and naturalist, via @Kripalu

In fact, one of the paradoxes of improv is that you have to try very hard in order to let go. This involves relaxing the mental muscles that control the automatic functioning of personality.

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Wowza.

…it’s trusting yourself. That you have something good to say, and that it’s worth saying. That’s what you have to do as an artist. Nobody else is really going to do it, everything comes from you.

Laurie Anderson, via FREEwilliamsburg