Robben Hoon

Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What’s one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.....

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child...

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing....

To create one’s own world takes courage.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So, write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can...

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for...

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art....