My art is like dancing; I have to let God lead. 

"Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it. Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”

From The Sheltering Sky
—Paul Bowles

Is an artist born or made?

While you may be born an artist doesn’t mean you have discovered that being an artist is your dharma, or purpose in life. There are many distractions.

In the main, family and society follow a program of conformity, a rigid form of unrelenting pressure that does not support the artist and his work. An artist must not only possess talent, he must have the courage to manifest that talent in the world. Without an unbending will to create and continue creating, the artist is lost, and no one can save such a victim from himself. 

It is truly simple to understand, much easier that getting lie and lay straight.

A craft can be taught; it can be learned, such as drawing, pottery, and other forms that require design.

Art cannot be taught; it can, however, be unleashed—as the power of creation demands it.

Do not confuse art with technique.

At the heart of technique is the perfection of style, which is intellectual and crafty.

At the heart of art is spontaneous creation, which is already perfect as it comes from the soul.