Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.The Artist's Way

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.