Quotes by Danny Gregory

This day is full of extraordinary things that you are missing. Wonderful sights, like the sun on your counterpane, the hairs on your cats tail, the cracks in the paint on your radiator, the leaves piling up against the curve. Wonderful smells, wonderful sounds. Wonderful people. Wonderful opportunities. Today is wonderful. But perhaps you have lost your sense of wonder.

An artist is someone who sees and feels realty very intensely. Creativity doesnt mean just making things up out of thin air. It means seeing and feeling the world so vividly that you can put together connections and patterns that help to explain reality. It means you see the beauty in the world rather than trying to hide from it.

Celebrate your life now, as it unfolds. Turn away from judgement and negative theories about your worth, your potential, and your destiny. See what you already have.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if its teaching you stuff, its not being wasted.

The true purpose of illustrated journaling [is] to celebrate your life. No matter how small or mundane or redundant, each drawing and little essay you write to commemorate an event or an object or a place makes it all the more special.

There are no bad drawings.Drawings are experiences.The more you draw, the more experienced youll get.In fact, youll learn more from bad or unpredictable or weird experiences than from those that go exactly as youd hoped and planned.So let it go.Release your egos desire for perfection.Take risks.Stretch.Grow.Create as much as you can, whenever you can.

Birds sing, wolves howl, crickets chirp. But why? Money? Fame? Record contracts? Endorsements? Whats it all for? They do it because theyre alive. They do it because life is about making things.

Remember: Writing is drawing.