Courage can't make you an artist, but without that courage, you won't remain one for long. First is the courage to be alone in the room where you create, and the courage to face that indefinitely, with no one to… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
“He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he was afraid of women. He had a child because… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
“In joy, our choices may appear to be few, but one's responses are anything but confined, they're inspired, expanded.” — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost to this… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
The world of psychology and the world of normal life tends to look down on obsession. It's not good for you, and certainly not… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
An artist doesn't depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn't depend on mood, certainly not if you're earning your living… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
