The act of creation is an attempt to enter a mysterious realm. Longing to transcend. - Rick Rubin

Established artists generally draw from their personal experience and recommend the solutions that worked for them.

To live as an artist is a way of being in the world. A way of perceiving. A practice of paying attention.

If you make the choice of reading classic literature every day for a year,
rather than reading the news, by the end of that time period you’ll have a
more honed sensitivity for recognizing greatness from the books than from
the media.