The Artisan Soul

I have come to realize, after over thirty years of studying human creativity, that the great divide is not between those who are artists and those who are not, but between those who understand that they are creative and those who have become convinced that they are not.

Words reveal our values and culture. The more familiar we are with something, the more words we have to describe it.

the great divide is not between those who are artists and those who are not, but between those who understand that they are creative and those who have become convinced that they are not.

it really that critical to embrace the artist within us? I would simply remind you of the insight from the Scriptures: as a man thinks, so is he.

The complexity is that we are both works of art and artists at work.

God created us through the universe’s most creative and intimate act. We are the result of a creative act by a creative God.

We are most human when love is our motive. It is the same with creativity.

There is no riskier way of life than the artisan way. Anything less is just existing.

There is an order to the creative process: we dream, we risk, we create.
We cannot create without risk.

creativity is born of risk and refined from failure.