Emergence and Light

You can't force something to emerge. What you're really looking for is a connection through the materials.

I get up in the morning knowing I don't know a lot, and I feel like a beginner every freaking day. That's exciting.

Light in a painting is everything. Trying to figure out what that is is very challenging and effortless at the same time.

Imagine yourself right there at that connection. Go with that, and be very focused on it. It takes a certain amount of faith.

When the light is shining through that window, you have no excuses. So I can get to work straight away.

It's the most magical feeling, to see people emerge into their light, defining themselves by their space, by their towns, by their communities.

What lights me up is women supporting women. That has been my passion for my entire life.

I'm constantly emerging into who I want to be.

I sort of want my daughter to figure out how she defines herself, rather than just by this island.

I developed a practice of just planting one hundred seeds, because who knows which is the single one that's going to come to fruition.

There's a whole world of making art outside of that really narrow path. It took rejection and some really traumatic life experiences to push me enough to say: go make your own path.

The decisions I made in my twenties were a big mistake for my thirties, and have been the cause of my success in my forties.

My favorite messy middle is score studying.

When I'm inside the messy middle and I feel like I have a voice of my own with the piece, that feels really exciting.

I sat in front of Hubbard Hall at Bowdoin College and had sandwiches when I was thirteen, and decided I would be a good conductor.

When you've created relationships and care between people, they're less likely to not answer your call.

Sometimes you end up where you're supposed to be.

I was blown away by the way people showed up.

Find that little thing that lights someone up.

Some of these things, we survive. We will survive.

When you come from the corner and reframe a situation, it gives energy instead of taking it.

It's really different when you can see the light in people.

When it's not seven degrees of separation, it's sometimes two or three. That's what I love about Maine.

If you bring people forward, they can recognize their brilliance.

Why I love having more than one voice on stage: what these brilliant people bring forward, that we can move together, is completely unexpected. We just kind of let it happen.

Have your question inside of your heart. Then come up to one of our panelists and say, "I have a question in my heart. Would you like to share this question with me?"