“At birth, each of us gets a note slipped under our pillow..”

“Well Child, do you have the courage child to do what’s right? The courage to be an artist?

The courage to be human?

Will the ten thousand things of the world wear you out, blind you, or break your heart?

Can you stand the countless rejections, the thousand mistakes you must make as you paint or write poetry, the failed bands and short stories that deliver no ephiphanies? So the test begins and it is never completed”

— Affirmations for Artists by Eric Maise